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CHILD TESTIMONY AND THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF CHILDHOOD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
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Bullock, Audrea Michelle
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2004, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
Abstract
This thesis examines the status of children under eighteenth-century English law. It is divided into three sections: legal treatises, felonious court cases with child victims, and felonious cases with juvenile defendants. It identifies significant differences between the legal treatment of children in eighteenth-century philosophical legal treatises and actual court treatment. It also suggests that children maintained significantly fewer rights than adults under the English system. Though children were theoretically included in all English laws, they could not testify in court and were more likely to be convicted of criminal offences than their adult counterparts.
Committee
David Fahey (Advisor)
Pages
70 p.
Subject Headings
History, European
Keywords
Children Legal Status Victims Juvinile Crime
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Bullock, A. M. (2004).
CHILD TESTIMONY AND THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF CHILDHOOD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1088608012
APA Style (7th edition)
Bullock, Audrea.
CHILD TESTIMONY AND THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF CHILDHOOD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON.
2004. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1088608012.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Bullock, Audrea. "CHILD TESTIMONY AND THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF CHILDHOOD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1088608012
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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