History of Criminal Law

In looking to consider the criminal law we have in the UK it is interesting to note the distinction between wrongs to the whole community and wrongs against individuals had still not been established by the time of the Roman occupation and did not really materialise until the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. But the ‘State’ dispensing justice via the judiciary did not truly develop until the eighteenth century when European countries began maintaining their police services so the criminal law finally had the mechanisms for its effective enforcement as the law is now derived from all manner of sources as a reflection of its history. In looking to consider the criminal law we have in the UK it is interesting to note the distinction between wrongs to the whole community and wrongs against individuals had still not been established by the time of the Roman occupation and did not really materialise until the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. But the ‘State’ dispensing justice via the judiciary did not truly develop until the eighteenth century when European countries began maintaining their police services so the criminal law finally had the mechanisms for its effective enforcement as the law is now derived from all manner of sources as a reflection of its history....

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