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The civilization of crime : violence in town and country since the Middle Ages

Title
The civilization of crime : violence in town and country since the Middle Ages / edited by Eric A. Johnson and Eric H. Monkkonen.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Johnson, Eric A. (Eric Arthur), 1948-
  • Monkkonen, Eric H., 1942-
Description
290 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Subject
  • Violent crimes > Europe > History
  • Violent crimes > Cross-cultural studies
  • Crimes violents > Europe > Histoire
  • Crimes violents > Études transculturelles
  • Criminaliteit
  • Geweld
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Eric A. Johnson and Eric H. Monkkonen -- 1. Crime in England: Long-Term Trends and the Problem of Modernization / James A. Sharpe -- 2. Criminality, Social Control, and the Early Modern State: Evidence and Interpretations in Scandinavian Historiography / Eva Osterberg -- 3. Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Theoretical Reflections and Dutch Evidence, Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries / Pieter Spierenburg -- 4. The Hundred Years' War and Crime in Paris, 1332-1488 / Esther Cohen -- 5. Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples / Michele Manciano -- 6. Between Town and Countryside: Organized Crime in the Dutch Republic / Florike Egmond -- 7. Urban and Rural Criminal Justice and Criminality in the Netherlands since the Late Middle Ages: Some Observations / Herman Diederiks -- 8. For God, State, and People: Crime and Local Justice in Preindustrial Sweden / Jan Sundin -- 9. Urban and Rural Crime Rates and Their Genesis in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain / Barbara Weinberger -- 10. Urban and Rural Crime in the Germany, 1871-1914 / Eric A. Johnson.
ISBN
  • 0252022424 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 9780252022425 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0252065468 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780252065460 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
95050201
OCLC
  • ocm33947957
  • 33947957
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries