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Comparative histories of crime
Title
Comparative histories of crime / edited by Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall.
ISBN
1135988870
1135988943
113598901X
1282077155
1283961423
1843924315
6612077158
9781135988876
9781135988944
9781135989019
9781282077157
9781283961424
9781843924319
9786612077159
1843920360
1843920379
9781843920366
9781843920373
Published
Cullompton : Willan, 2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
English.
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Summary
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and criminology. Overall the book aims to broaden the focus of the historical context of crime and policing to take fuller account of cross-national and c.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Comparative histories of crime. Cullompton : Willan, 2003
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: do you have plane-spotters in New Zealand? ; Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity / Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall
It's a small world after all? Reflections on violence in comparative perspectives / John Carter Wood
Moral panics and violent street crime 1750-2000: a comparative perspective / Peter King
'The great murder mystery' or explaining declining homicide rates / Maria Kaspersson
Strangers, mobilisation and the production of weak ties: railway traffic and violence in nineteenth-century South-West Germany / Susanne Karstedt
'Inventing' the juvenile delinquent in nineteenth-century Europe / Heather Shore
'Scoundrels and scallywags, and some honest men ... ' Memoirs and the self-image of French and English policemen c.1870-1939 / Paul Lawrence
Policing the seaside holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastian from the 1870s to the 1930s / John K. Walton
'The greatest efficiency': British and American military law, 1866-1918 / Gerry Oram
The decline and renaissance of shame in modern penal systems / John Pratt
Practical and philosophical dilemmas in cross-cultural research: the future of comparative crime history? / Bronwyn Morrison.
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