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Crime history and histories of crime : studies in the historiography of crime and criminal justice in modern history
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Crime history and histories of crime : studies in the historiography of crime and criminal justice in modern history

Author: Clive Emsley; Louis A Knafla
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Series: Contributions in criminology and penology, no. 48
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Clive Emsley; Louis A Knafla
ISBN: 0313287228 9780313287220
OCLC Number: 32133466
Description: vi, 313 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title: Contributions in criminology and penology, no. 48
Responsibility: edited by Clive Emsley and Louis A. Knafla.

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