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Some time between the seizure of power by Henry Tudor in 1485 and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 there was a significant change in both attitudes to and the perception of crime in England. What were these changes and why did they occur?
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© 1996 John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent
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Briggs, J., Harrison, C., McInnes, A., Vincent, D. (1996). Crime and the courts in early modern England. In: Crime and Punishment in England. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08178-0_2
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