Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Godfrey, Barry; Dunstall, Graeme

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134009312
• Artikelnr.: 41218255

Autorenporträt

Barry Godfrey is Professor of Criminology at Keele University, UK. Graeme Dunstall is a Lecturere in History at Canterbury University, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Crime and Empire: Introduction 2. The Changes in Policing and
Penal Policy in Nineteenth-century Europe 3. Explaining the History of
Punishment 4. Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? by Mark Finnane 5.
Colonialism and the Rule of Law 6. Colonial History and Theories of the
Present: Some Reflections upon Penal History and Theory 7. Crime, the Legal
Archive, and Postcolonial Histories 8. Traces and Transmissions:
Techno-scientific Symbolism in Early Twentieth-century Policing 9. The
English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth-century Tasmania 10. The Growth
of Crime and Crime Control in Developing Towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920
11. (Re)presenting Scandal: Charles Reade's Advocacy of Professionalism
within the English Prison System 12. 'Saving our Unfortunate Sisters'?:
Establishing the First Separate Prison for Women in New Zealand 13. Maori
Police Personnel and the Rangitiratanga Discourse 14. 'To Make the
Precedent Fit the Crime': British Legal Responses to Sati in Early
Nineteenth-century North India 15. 'Everyday Life' in Boer Women's
Testimonies of the Concentration Camps of the South African War, 1899-1902
16. Codification of the Criminal Law: The Australasian Parliamentary
Experience