The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice

by Knepper, Paul; Johansen, Anja

• ISBN13: 9780190947378
• ISBN10: 0190947373
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-05-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The historical study of crime has expanded in criminology during the past few decades, forming an active niche area in social history. Indeed, the history of crime is more relevant than ever as scholars seek to address contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice. Thus, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of recent developments across both fields. Chapters examine existing research, explain on-going debates and controversies, and point to new areas of interest, covering topics such as criminal law and courts, police and policing, and the rise of criminology as a field. This Handbook also analyzes some of the most pressing criminological issues of our time, including drug trafficking, terrorism, and the intersections of gender, race, and class in the context of crime and punishment. The definitive volume on the history of crime, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of criminology, criminal justice, and legal history.

Author Biography

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.

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