Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland
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A01=Allan D. Kennedy
Author_Allan D. Kennedy
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crime
early modern
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forthcoming
history
punishment
Scotland
scottish history
seventeenth century
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- ISBN 9781399533171
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores serious criminality in Scotland between 1660 and c.1700. Through in-depth analysis of the records of the Justiciary Court, Scotland’s central criminal jurisdiction, it reconstructs the meaning of ‘crime’ as understood by seventeenth-century Scots, before moving on to assess patterns of prosecution, the causes of crime, the performance of criminality, and wider response to illegal behaviour, all with a view to reconstructing the social meaning of crime. The result is an unprecedentedly detailed and systematic account of criminal behaviour which adds a completely new perspective to our understanding of early modern Scotland.
Dr Allan Kennedy is a lecturer in history at the University of Dundee. His research focuses on the political and social history of early modern Scotland, particularly the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. His first book, Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 (Leiden, 2014) won the Frank Watson Book Prize.
