Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century 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.

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviations and ConventionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Crime in Early Modern ScotlandPart I. Crime in Context1. Conceptualising Crime2. The Matrix of Control3. Patterns of Prosecution and PunishmentPart II. The Experience of Crime4. Becoming Criminal5. Performing Crime6. Responses and ConsequencesConclusion: The Meaning of Crime in Late-Seventeenth Century ScotlandBibliographyIndex

This books offers the first substantial intervention in the history of crime in seventeenth-century Scotland. It provides an important account of how Scots conceptualised, prosecuted, and punished criminal behaviour. It is a must read for historians of Scottish social, economic and criminal life.