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 eBooks
• 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