Clive Emsley

Crime, Police, and Penal Policy

European Experiences 1750-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley addresses these questions and reveals that many ideas hailed as new in current debate on crime and its solutions have a long and illustrious history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780199669479
• ISBN-10: 0199669473
• Artikelnr.: 36453359

Autorenporträt

Educated at the University of York and at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Clive Emsley has taught and held visiting fellowships in Australia, Canada, France, and New Zealand. He has published widely on the history of crime and policing, including Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 (now in its fourth edition), Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England and The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present. He was president of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice for ten years.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
The Old Regime and the Enlightenment
2: Laws and Punishments
3: The Understanding and Nature of Crime
4: Coping with Crime
The Revolutionary Era
5: The New French System
6: Crime and Police in Revolution and War
The Discovery of the Criminal Classes
7: Measuring a Problem
8: Danger in the City: Danger in the Countryside
9: Protection, Punishment and Reformation
The Appliance of Science
10: 'Scientific Criminology
11: New Professionals: Old Problems
The Faces of Penal Welfare
12: Penal Policies and the Impact of War
13: Controlling and Punishing after the Great War
14: National Paths: Common Patterns