Crime in Creole Countries - A Sketch of Criminal Ethnography

This book provides an unvarnished account and contemporaneous interpretation of criminal activities at a time in which the French colonies within the West Indies were transitioning from slavery to emancipation. The firsthand account depicts the inhumanity of this historical time-frame.

List of contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
Translators Note
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: General Evolution of Crime in the Creole Countries
Chapter 2: General Factors of Local Criminality
Chapter 3: Forms of Creole Crime Itself
Chapter 4: Forms of the Criminality of Importation or Indian
Conclusion
About the Translators
Index

About the author

Stephen M. Marson is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Quentin Bouvier is PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Summary

This book provides an unvarnished account and contemporaneous interpretation of criminal activities at a time in which the French colonies within the West Indies were transitioning from slavery to emancipation. The firsthand account depicts the inhumanity of this historical time-frame.

Product details

• Assisted by: Quentin P. Bouvier (Translation), Stephen M. Marson (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793633125
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-312-5
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Crime & criminology