Law and crime in the Roman world

by Harries, Jill

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Title Statements

Full title :Law and crime in the Roman world / Jill Harries.

Summary

"What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the community as a whole? This book explores competing legal and extra-legal discourses in a number of areas, including theft, official malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of violence, homicide, magic and perceptions of deviance. It argues that court practice was responsive to social change, despite the ingrained conservatism of the legal tradition, and that judges and litigants were in part responsible for the harsher operation of justice in Late Antiquity. Consideration is also given to how attitudes to crime were shaped not only by legal experts but also by the rhetorical education and practices of advocates, and by popular and even elite indifference to the finer points of law."--Jacket

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 148 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511620317, 0511620314
oclc:ocn817913351
LC Classification:KJA147
Dewey Decimal:340.5/4

Competing discourses -- Public process and the legal tradition -- Cognitio -- The thief in the night -- Controlling elites I : ambitus and repetundae -- Controlling elites II : maiestas -- Sex and the city -- Remedies for violence -- Representations of murder.

Subjects

Civilization Crime Crime -- History. -- Rome Criminaliteit Droit romain History Kriminalität Recht Roman law Rome -- Civilisation Rome -- Civilization Rome (Empire) Romeinse oudheid Römisches Reich Strafrecht