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This chapter summarises a quantitative analysis of the administration of justice in four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. It deploys the image of the ‘criminal justice funnel’ to explore comparatively the similarities and differences between the administration of justice between England and Wales, and individual English and Welsh counties. Four factors are highlighted as being significant in determining whether or not a capitally convicted felon was executed: the location where they were convicted; when in the seventy-year period they were convicted; the crime for which they were convicted; and, finally, their sex.
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Walliss, J. (2018). Conclusion. In: The Bloody Code in England and Wales, 1760–1830. World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74561-9_6
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