Description:
This book traces the evolving balance of French and English influence on criminal justice in Guernsey. It maps key legal and judicial changes, illustrates them with case studies and relates them to broader changes at home and abroad.
Brief description: DR ROSE-MARIE CROSSAN is a Guernsey-born independent historian specialising in all aspects of the island's social history. Her early background was in languages, with her first degree a BA in French and German from Oxford University. Her study of pre-twentieth-century European literature ignited a latent interest in history which eventually culminated in a wish to study the subject at doctoral level. In 2005, she gained her PhD from Leicester University with a thesis on nineteenth-century immigration to Guernsey. This was published two years later as 'Guernsey, 1814-1914: Migration and Modernisation' (Woodbridge, 2007). Among Dr Crossan's subsequent publications are 'Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey, 1560-2015' (Woodbridge, 2015); 'The States and Secondary Education, 1560-1970' (Guernsey, 2016); and 'A Women's History of Guernsey, 1850s-1950s' (Benderloch, 2018).