Comparative Histories of Crime

Herausgeber: Dunstall, Graeme; Godfrey, Barry; Emsley, Clive

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willan
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781843920373
• ISBN-10: 1843920379
• Artikelnr.: 24988008

Autorenporträt

Barry Godfrey is Professor of Criminology at Keele University, UK. Clive Emsley is Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. Graeme Dunstall is Professor of Criminology at Canterbury University, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Martin Wiener 1. Introduction: Do you have Plane-spotters in
New Zealand? Issues in Comparative Crime History at the Turn of Modernity
by Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall 2. It's a Small World
After All? Reflections on Violence in Comparative Perspectives by John
Carter Wood 3. Moral Panics and Violent Street Crime 1750-2000: A
Comparative Perspective by Peter King 4. 'The Great Murder Mystery' or
Explaining Declining Homicide Rates by Maria Kaspersson 5. Strangers,
Mobilisation and the Production of Weak Ties: Railway Traffic and Violence
in Nineteenth-century South West Germany by Susanne Karstedt 6. 'Inventing'
the Juvenile Delinquent in Nineteenth-century Europe by Heather Shore 7.
'Scoundrels and Scallywags, and Some Honest Men ...' Memoirs and the
Self-image of French and English Policemen c.1870-1939 by Paul Lawrence 8.
Policing the Seaside Holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastian from the 1870s to
the 1930s by John K. Walton 9. 'The Greatest Efficiency': British and
American Military Law, 1866-1918 by Gerry Oram 10. The Decline and
Renaissance of Shame in Modern Penal Systems by John Pratt 11. Practical
and Philosophical Dilemmas in Cross-cultural Research: The Future of
Comparative Crime History? by Bronwyn Morrison