Research Catalog

Title

Crime history and histories of crime : studies in the historiography of crime and criminal justice in modern history / edited by Clive Emsley and Louis A. Knafla.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Emsley, Clive.
• Knafla, Louis A., 1935-

Description

vi, 313 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions in criminology and penology, 0732-4464 ; no. 48

Uniform Title

Contributions in criminology and penology no. 48.

Subject

• Crime > History
• Punishment > History
• Crime > Historiography

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. I. Introduction -- From medieval cities to national states, 1350-1850: the historiography of crime and criminal justice in Europe / Xavier Rousseaux -- Structure, conjuncture, and event in the historiography of modern criminal justice history / Louis A. Knafla.
• pt. II. Western Europe -- Gender, class, and the courts: Scandinavia / Eva Österberg -- Albion's felonious attractions: reflections upon the history of crime in England / Clive Emsley -- Crime, the judicial system, and punishment in modern France / René Lévy -- Crime, police, and the "good order": Germany / Alf Lüdtke, Herbert Reinke -- Brigands, mafiosi, and others: Italy / Steven C. Hughes.
• pt. III. The Americas and Australia-New Zealand -- Crime and punishment in the Dominion of the North: Canada from New France to the present / Jim Phillips -- The urban police in the United States / Eric H. Monkkonen -- Bandits, real and imagined: an introduction to the theme in Mexican history / Paul Vanderwood -- Slaves, free poor, and policemen: Brazil / Marcos Luiz Bretas -- The convict taint: Australia and New Zealand / Stephen Garton.

ISBN

0313287228 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95006654^

OCLC

32133466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library