Comparative Histories of Crime

by Godfrey; Barry

• ISBN13: 9781843920366
• ISBN10: 1843920360
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book both reflects and takes 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 broadens the focus of the historical context of crime and policing to take fuller account of cross-national and cross-cultural factors.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Martin Wiener	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on the editors and contributors	xi
1 Introduction: do you have plane-spotters in New Zealand? Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity	1	(35)
Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall
2 It's a small world after all? Reflections on violence in comparative perspectives	36	(17)
John Carter Wood
3 Moral panics and violent street crime 1750-2000: a comparative perspective	53	(19)
Peter King
4 'The great murder mystery' or explaining declining homicide rates	72	(17)
Maria Kaspersson
5 Strangers, mobilisation and the production of weak ties: railway traffic and violence in nineteenth-century South West Germany	89	(21)
Susanne Karstedt
6 'Inventing' the juvenile delinquent in nineteenth-century Europe	110	(15)
Heather Shore
7 'Scoundrels and scallywags, and some honest men ...' Memoirs and the self-image of French and English policemen c.1870-1939	125	(20)
Paul Lawrence
8 Policing the seaside holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastián from the 1870's to the 1930's	145	(14)
John K. Walton
9 'The greatest efficiency': British and American military law, 1866-1918	159	(19)
Gerry Oram
10 The decline and renaissance of shame in modern penal systems	178	(17)
John Pratt
11 Practical and philosophical dilemmas in cross-cultural research: the future of comparative crime history?	195	(18)
Bronwyn Morrison
Index	213