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  • WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT
    RUTH BRANDON / CHRISTIE DAVIES
    First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. The authors spent three years collecting material from newspaper reports, trial tr...

    $840.00

  • THE STRANGE DEATH OF MORAL BRITAIN
    CHRISTIE DAVIES
    In the last half of the twentieth century, a once respectable and religious Britain became a seriously violent and dishonest society, one in which person and property were at risk, family breakdown ubiquitous, and drug and alcohol abuse rising. "The Strange Death of Moral Britain" demonstrates in detail the roots of Britain's decline. It also shows how a society, strongly Prote...

    $1,360.00

  • THE MIRTH OF NATIONS
    CHRISTIE DAVIES
    The Mirth of Nations is a social and historical study of jokes told in the principal English-speaking countries. It is based on use of archives and other primary sources, including old and rare joke books. Davies makes detailed comparisons between the humor of specific pairs of nations and ethnic and regional groups. In this way, he achieves an appreciation of the unique charac...

    $1,340.00