Disease and Crime (eBook, PDF)

A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
Redaktion: Peckham, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world. News reports proclaim "epidemics" of crime, politicians denounce terrorism as a lethal pathological threat, and "epidemiological criminology" merges public health with criminal justice to provide analytical tools for criminal justice practitioners and health care professionals. This volume explores the discursive construction of crime and disease across a range of geographical and historical settings, as well as the historical continuities and discontinuities between contemporary invocations of crime as disease and the emergence of criminology, epidemiology, and public health in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135045951
• Artikelnr.: 40147456

Autorenporträt

Robert Peckham is Co-Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches in the Department of History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pathologizing Crime, Criminalizing Disease Part I 1. Hong
Kong's Floating World: Disease and Crime at the Edge of Empire 2. Sexual
Deviancies, Disease, and Crime in Cesare Lombroso and the "Italian School"
of Criminal Anthropology 3. Pathological Properties: Scenes of Crime, Sites
of Infection 4. Morality Plays: Presentations of Criminality and Disease in
Nazi Ghettos and Concentration Camps Part II 5. The "Bad" and the "Sick":
Medicalizing Deviance in China 6. Contagious Wilderness: Avian Flu and
Suburban Riots in the French Media 7. The Criminalization of Industrial
Disease: Epidemiology in a Japanese Asbestos Lawsuit 8. Crime Between
History and Natural History