caa a22 4500 388082178 CHVBK 20180307125219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744379 doi S0738248000011639 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744379 Wiener Martin J. Judges v. Jurors: Courtroom Tensions in Murder Trials and the Law of Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England [Elektronische Daten] [Martin J. Wiener] Although it is well known that the criminal law's administration in nineteenth-century England altered decisively, little important change has been noted in the substantive criminal law. Yet change there was, but produced less through legislation (as was much administrative change) or even appeals court rulings than through everyday criminal justice practice. In particular, the effective meanings of legal terms central to the prosecution of homicide—terms such as provocation, intention, and insanity—were in motion during the nineteenth century as part of a broader redefining and reimagining of liability and responsibility. To grasp these often subtle shifts of meaning, we must look to the sites in which they occurred, the most important of which were the courtrooms of the assize courts, where the most serious offenses were tried. Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/3(1999), 467-506 0738-2480 17:3<467 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744379 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744379 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wiener Martin J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/3(1999), 467-506 0738-2480 17:3<467 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge