Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century ScotlandVolume 1: Magistrates, Media and the Masses
David G Barrie;Susan Broomhall
Sometimes referred to as magistrates’ courts, police courts in 19th-century Scotland dealt with around 85 percent of all civic and criminal offences and they were where urban dwellers were most likely to experience and interact with the law. This volume provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the courts’ establishment, development and functioning. .