Mary Nichols

Crime, Punishment, and Reform in Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains essays of the history of crime, punishment, and reform in Europe from the 18th century onward. It also contains two long book review essays, and 22 book reviews on major works that have appeared in the subject from the mid-1990s. Knafla's introduction outlines the issues and themes that are contained in the essays and the reviews. As in the other volumes in this series, a comprehensive index identifies all subjects, names, and places in the volume. This is an important resource for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with criminal justice issues and European history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780313310140
• ISBN-10: 0313310149
• Artikelnr.: 22181126

Autorenporträt

LOUIS A. KNAFLA is Professor of History Emeritus, and Director of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Calgary. He has published widely in the field of law and society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux,
1715-1724 by Rebecca Kingston Social Discipline and the Arbitration of
Disputes in Northern Spain: A Murder Case of 1799 by ToMÁs Mantecon The
Fall of the Sessions Paper: The Criminal Trial and the Popular Press in
Late Eighteenth-Century London by Simon Devereaux Daniel Isaac Eaton and
the Pillory in Regency England by Michael Davis Legitimacy in the Evolution
of the Prison: The Chatham Convict Prison Outbreak 1861 by Alyson Brown
World War I and the Criminalization of Youth in Italy by Mary Gibson The
Reform of Offenders in England, 1830-1995: A Circular Debate by Kevin
Downing and Bill Forsythe Review Essays Book Reviews Index