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The “Bl00dy C0de” refers to England’s harsh 18th/19th-century criminal laws that expanded the ultimate price to over 200 offenses, many minor. Designed to deter crime amid social change, it instead exposed deep inequalities. #EnglishLaw #CrimeHistory #PenalReform #18thCenturyLaw #inequalities
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