Table of Contents

Introduction
Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen

PART ONE: HISTORIANS, INTERPRETATIONS, METHODOLOGIES
1. The Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice - Paul Lawrence
2. The Crime Historian's Modi Operandi - Barry Godfrey
3. Long-term Trends in Crime: Continuity and Change - Marcelo F. Aebi and Antonia Linde
4. Geography of Crime: Urban and Rural Environments - Catherine Denys

PART TWO: FORMS OF CRIME
5. Histories of Interpersonal Violence in Europe and North America, 1700-Present - Richard Mc Mahon
6. Ideas and Practices of Prostitution Around the World - Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
7. Forms of Crime: Crime and Retail Theft - Tammy Whitlock
8. A Brief History of the Underworld and Organized Crime, c. 1750-1950 - Heather Shore
9. Terrorism and its Policing: Anarchists and the Era of Propaganda by the Deed, 1870s-1914 - Constance Bantman
10. Dreams and Nightmares: Drug Trafficking and the History of International Crime - Paul Knepper

PART THREE: CRIME, GENDER, AND ETHNICITIES
11. Violence and Masculinity - Joachim Eibach
12. Women and Crime, 1750-2000 - Manon van der Heijden
13. Policing Minorities - Margo de Koster and Herman Reinke
14. Black Women, Criminal Justice, and Violence - Kali N. Gross

PART FOUR: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CRIME
15. Crime News and the Press - John Carter Wood
16. Crime, Criminology, and the Crime Genre - Gray Cavender and Nancy Jurik
17. Contested Spaces: On Crime Museums, Monuments and Memorials - Per Jørgen Ystehede
18. A Historical Perspective on Crime Fiction in Mexico During the Middle Decades of the Twentieth Century - Pablo Piccato

PART FIVE: RISE OF CRIMINOLOGY
19. The Rise of Criminology in its Historical Context - Pieter Spierenburg
20. Criminal Minds: Psychiatry, Psychopathology, and the Government of Criminality - Stephen Garton
21. Continuity and Change: Russian and Early Soviet Criminology and the Criminal Woman - Sharon A. Kowalsky

PART SIX: LAW ENFORCEMENT AND POLICING
22. Policing Before the Police in the Eighteenth Century: British Perspectives in a European Context - David G. Barrie
23. The Origins of "Modern" Policing - Mark Finnane
24. Detectives and Forensic Science: The Professionalization of Police Detection - Haia Shpayer-Makov
25. Police-Public Relations: Interpretations of Policing and Democratic Governance - Anja Johansen
26. Crime and Policing in Wartime - Clive Emsley

PART SEVEN: LAW, COURTS, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
27. The Role of Popular Justice in U.S. History - Elizabeth Dale
28. Popular Dramas Between Transgression and Order: Criminal Trials and their Publics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in Global Perspective - Daniel Siemens
29. Mercy and Parole in Anglo-American Criminal Justice Systems from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century - Carolyn Strange
30. Histories of Crime and Criminal Justice and the Historical Analysis of Criminal Law - Markus D. Dubber

PART EIGHT: PUNISHMENT AND PRISONS
31. The Death Penalty - Randall McGowen
32. The Rise and Fall of Penal Transportation - Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
33. The Mad, the Bad and the Pauper: Help and Control in Early Modern Carceral Institutions - Sandra Scicluna
34. Histories of the Modern Prison: Renewal, Regression, and Expansion - Michael Meranze

About the Author

Paul Knepper is a visiting professor of criminology at the School of Criminal Sciences, University of Lausanne, and a Senior Research Fellow at the South-East European Research Centre in Thessaloniki.


Anja Johansen is Senior Lecturer in Comparative European History at the University of Dundee.

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