The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674–1913: Text Mining for Evidence of Court Behavior

Autor:	William J. Turkel, Tim Hitchcock
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	DA550 050502 law History 05 social sciences DA498 06 humanities and the arts DA090 060104 history D1 Law 0601 history and archaeology Sociology DA505 0505 law
Zdroj:	Law and History Review. 34:929-955
ISSN:	1939-9022 0738-2480
DOI:	10.1017/s0738248016000304
Popis:	This article uses text and data mining methodologies to explore the distribution of text among the 197,000 trials published as part of the Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1913. By testing how the Proceedings report trials that resulted from different charges and pleas it argues that historians need to be wary of their use as evidence for eighteenth-century court behaviour. It also demonstrates that the Proceedings give a much fuller account of nineteenth-century trials, and provides evidence derived from the distribution of words between trials for the early and growing importance of “plea bargaining” in the nineteenth century, resulting in a significant transformation in the character of the criminal trial.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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