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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- TRIAL BY MAGISTRATE AND PEOPLE -- TRIAL BY JURY -- CICERO ON PUNISHMENT -- THE NEW COURTS: AUGUSTUS AND TIBERIUS -- THE MATURING COGNITIO: CALIGULA AND CLAUDIUS -- NERO AND THE STOICS -- DOMITIAN AND MORALITY -- PREFECTS AND CRIMINAL TRIALS -- THE GROWTH OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE: DE IUDICIIS PUBLICIS -- THE GROWTH OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE: DE POENIS -- ATTITUDES TO PUNISHMENT -- IN RETROSPECT -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index to sources -- General index.;First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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