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Preface
Crime and Criminal Justice in the European Countryside: Some Questions for Comparison by Clive Emsley
The Origins of `The Problem of Juvenile Delinquency': The Growth of Juvenile Prosecutions in London in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries by Peter King and Joan Noel
`Policing Juveniles': Delinquency in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Manchester by Barbara Weinberger
`An Eldorado of Riches and a Place of Unpunished Crime': The Politics of Penal Reform in Hong Kong, 1877-1882 by Kate Lowe and Eugene McLaughlin
The Rise of the Detective in London 1869-1914 by Stefan Petrow
`Dime Novel Toughs': Legal Culture and Criminal Law in Red Deer, Alberta 1907-1920 by Jonathan Swainger
Review Essays; Policing the Empire by Bernard Porter
Miscarriages of Justice? The Phoenix Park Murders, 1882 by John McEldowney
Custodes Pacis Orbi Terrae: The History of Conservators, Keepers and Justices of the Peace in England and Beyond by Louis A. Knafla
Bibliography; Criminality and Criminal Justice History in Europe, 1250-1850: Selected Bibliography by Xavier Rousseau
Book Reviews; Robert B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c.1660-1725 by Ruth Paley
Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter King
Frank McLynn, Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England by J.A. Sharpe
Philippe Robert (ed.) Entre L'Ordre et la liberté, la Detention Provisoire. Deux Siècles de Débats by Richard Vogler
Steven G. Reinhardt, Justice in the Sarladais, 1770-1790 by M.G. Broers
Jean-Marc Berlière, La Police des moeurs sous la XXXe République by Jill Harsin
Jacques Laplante, Prison et ordre social au Québec and Jean-Marie Fecteau, Un nouvel ordre des choses: la pauvreté `s 1850 by Greg Marquis
Alf Lüdtke (ed.) 'Sicherheit und 'Wohlfart': Polizei, Gesellschaft und Herrschaft im 19. und 20 Jahrhundert by Barbara Weinberger
David J.V. Jones, Crime in Nineteenth-Century Wales by W. A. Crowther
George Robb, White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality 1845-1929 by Clive Emsley
Hai-Huey Liang, The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War by Mark Mazowor
Eleanor Bushnell, Crimes, Follies, and Misfortunes: The Federal Impeachment Trials by Thomas C. Mackey
Nancy Leys Stepan, "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America by Ronns F. Pineo
Nigel Walker, Why Punish? by Tom Sorell
Index
About the author
LOUIS A. KNAFLA is Professor of History, University of Calgary. He has published numerous books on the history of crime and criminal justice.
