Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume's 28 chapters reflect the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established scholars working on American crime histories today.
Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume's 28 chapters reflect the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established scholars working on American crime histories today.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
James Campbell is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Leicester, UK. He has published on histories of crime, punishment and law in the United States, Jamaica and the British Empire and is currently working on the history of the death penalty and its abolition in Britain's last colonies. Vivien Miller is Professor of American History at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications cover murder, rape, kidnapping, fraud, theft, convict leasing, chain gangs, prisons, capital punishment, organized crime and racetrack corruption. She is currently working on the history of acid crime in the urban-industrial United States.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1: Major Themes in American Crime History 1. Defining, Recording, and Measuring Crime in the United States from Colonial Times to the Present 2. Theories of Crime in American History 3. Crime and Popular Culture in American History 4. Policing Crime in American History 5. Punishment in America: Innovation, Continuity, Recycling and Technological Transformation Part 2: Crime and American Culture 6. Transatlantic Felony: Convict Transportation and Representations of Criminality in the British American Colonies 7. Depictions of Crime in American Cinema, 1903-1936 8. Crime, Popular Culture, and the Media in the 21st Century Part 3: Histories of American Violence 9. "The Penalty of a Tyrant's Law": Slavery and Crime in the Nineteenth Century American South 10. Crime and Punishment in a 19th Century Western Community 11. "The American City is becoming a Menace to State and Nation": Urban Crime in the Age of Jim Crow and Mass Immigration' 12. American Serial Killers Part 4: Class, Gender and Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century 13. "Relieving the city from beggars and the poor": The Criminalization of Poverty and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century 14. Making Women Visible: Gender, Race, and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America 15. White Collar Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century Part 5: Organized Crime 16. Pirates and Piracy in Colonial America and the Atlantic World 17. Organised Crime and Race in the US, 1865-1941 18. "Wicked" and "Sham": The evolution of "organized crime" and Its Control in the United States, 1929-Present 19. Women and Organised Crime Part 6: Crime and Policing 20. State Building, Settler Colonialism, and Policing the Nineteenth Century American West 21. Federal Crimes and Policing in the Early-Twentieth Century 22. Race, Crime, and Policing in the United States from the War on Crime to the War on Drugs Part 7: Science, Technology and Crime 23. Scientific Knowledge and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America 24. Crime Scene Photography in the Twentieth Century Part 8: Crime and Punishment 25. Penal Reform in the Early United States 26. Capital Crimes and the Death Penalty, 1860-1960 Part 9: Crime, Politics and Governance since the 1960s 27. Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960 28. Governing Through Crime in the 21st Century
Introduction Part 1: Major Themes in American Crime History 1. Defining, Recording, and Measuring Crime in the United States from Colonial Times to the Present 2. Theories of Crime in American History 3. Crime and Popular Culture in American History 4. Policing Crime in American History 5. Punishment in America: Innovation, Continuity, Recycling and Technological Transformation Part 2: Crime and American Culture 6. Transatlantic Felony: Convict Transportation and Representations of Criminality in the British American Colonies 7. Depictions of Crime in American Cinema, 1903-1936 8. Crime, Popular Culture, and the Media in the 21st Century Part 3: Histories of American Violence 9. "The Penalty of a Tyrant's Law": Slavery and Crime in the Nineteenth Century American South 10. Crime and Punishment in a 19th Century Western Community 11. "The American City is becoming a Menace to State and Nation": Urban Crime in the Age of Jim Crow and Mass Immigration' 12. American Serial Killers Part 4: Class, Gender and Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century 13. "Relieving the city from beggars and the poor": The Criminalization of Poverty and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century 14. Making Women Visible: Gender, Race, and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America 15. White Collar Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century Part 5: Organized Crime 16. Pirates and Piracy in Colonial America and the Atlantic World 17. Organised Crime and Race in the US, 1865-1941 18. "Wicked" and "Sham": The evolution of "organized crime" and Its Control in the United States, 1929-Present 19. Women and Organised Crime Part 6: Crime and Policing 20. State Building, Settler Colonialism, and Policing the Nineteenth Century American West 21. Federal Crimes and Policing in the Early-Twentieth Century 22. Race, Crime, and Policing in the United States from the War on Crime to the War on Drugs Part 7: Science, Technology and Crime 23. Scientific Knowledge and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America 24. Crime Scene Photography in the Twentieth Century Part 8: Crime and Punishment 25. Penal Reform in the Early United States 26. Capital Crimes and the Death Penalty, 1860-1960 Part 9: Crime, Politics and Governance since the 1960s 27. Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960 28. Governing Through Crime in the 21st Century
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