Serious Crime in Late-Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Allan D. Kennedy

Serious Crime in Late-Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 February 2025
Pages
256
ISBN
9781399533164

Serious Crime in Late-Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Allan D. Kennedy

This book explores serious criminality in Scotland between 1660 and c.1700. Through in-depth analysis of the records of the Justiciary Court, Scotland's central criminal jurisdiction, it reconstructs the meaning of 'crime' as understood by seventeenth-century Scots, before moving on to assess patterns of prosecution, the causes of crime, the performance of criminality, and wider response to illegal behaviour, all with a view to reconstructing the social meaning of crime. The result is an unprecedentedly detailed and systematic account of criminal behaviour which adds a completely new perspective to our understanding of early modern Scotland.

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