Title:
The Oxford handbook of the history of crime and criminal justice / edited by Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen.
Author:
Knepper, Paul, editor.
Johansen, Anja, 1965- editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©2016
Call Number:
HV6021 .O94 2016
Abstract:
"The historical study of crime has become a rapidly expanding area of both social history and criminology during the past few decades. Indeed, the history of crime is more relevant than ever for scholars seeking to address contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice, and for historians trying to understand the nature of crime and criminal justice in past societies. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of recent developments across both fields. The aim is to further exchange between scholars working on crime and criminal justice from different disciplines. The chapters examine existing research, explain ongoing debates and controversies, and point to new areas of interest, covering topics such as crime in its social context, criminal law and courts, police and policing, and the rise of criminology as a field. This handbook also analyzes some of the most pressing criminological issues of our time, including drug trafficking, terrorism, and the intersections of gender, race, and class in the context of crime and punishment. The definitive volume on the history of crime, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of criminology, criminal justice, and legal history"--Jacket.
ISBN:
9780199352333
9780190947378
Series:
The Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice
Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice.
Physical Description:
x, 707 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
List of contributors -- Introduction / Historians, interpretations, methodologies. The historiography of crime and criminal justice / The crime historian's modi operandi / Long-term trends in crime : continuity and change / Geography of crime : urban and rural environments / Forms of crime. Histories of interpersonal violence in Europe and North America, 1700-present / Ideas and practices of prostitution around the world / Forms of crime : crime and retail theft / A brief history of the underworld and organized crime, c. 1750-1950 / Terrorism and its policing : anarchists and the era of propaganda by the deed, 1870s-1914 / Dreams and nightmares : drug trafficking and the history of international crime / Crime, gender, and ethnicities. Violence and masculinity / Women and crime, 1750-2000 / Policing minorities / Black women, criminal justice, and violence / Cultural representations of crime. Crime news and the press / Crime, criminology, and the crime genre / Contested spaces : On crime museums, monuments and memorials / A historical perspective on crime fiction in Mexico during the middle decades of the twentieth century / Rise of criminology. The rise of criminology in its historical context / Criminal minds : psychiatry, psychopathology and the government of criminality / Continuity and change : Russian and early Soviet criminology and the criminal woman / Law enforcement and policing. Policing before the police in the eighteenth century : British perspectives in a European context / The origins of modern policing / Detectives and forensic science : the professionalization of police detection / Police-public relations : interpretations of policing and democratic governance / Crime and policing in wartime / Law, courts, and criminal justice. The role of popular justice in U.S. history / Popular dramas between transgression and order : criminal trials and their publics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in global perspective / Mercy and parole in Anglo-American criminal justice systems, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first century / Histories of crime and criminal justice and the historical analysis of criminal law / Punishment and prisons. The death penalty / The rise and fall of penal transportation / The mad, the bad and the pauper : help and control in early modern carceral institutions / Histories of the modern prison : renewal, regression and expansion / Index.
