Writing the History of Crime

Writing the History of Crime investigates the development of historical writing on the subject of crime and its wider place in social and cultural history. It examines long-standing and emerging traditions in history writing, with separate chapters on legal and scientific approaches, as well as on urban, Marxist, gender and empire history. Each chapter then explores these historical approaches in relation to crime, paying particular attention to the relationship between theory and the interpretation of evidence.Rather than a timeline for the historical appearance of ideas about crime or a catalogue of the range of topics that comprise the subject matter, Writing the History of Crime reveals the ideas behind crime as a subject of historical investigation; it looks at how these ideas generate questions that may be asked about the past and the way in which these questions are answered. This is a crucial analysis for anyone interested in the history of crime, the historiography of social history or the art of history writing more broadly.

Sommario

Introduction
1. Legal History: Crime or Criminal Justice?
2. Statistics, Trends and Techniques
3. Mind and Body, Civilisation and Evolution
4. The British Marxist Historians
5. The City: Underclass, Underworld and Urban Disorder
6. Foucault and the Cultural Turn
7. Women's History, Feminist Perspectives
8. Colonialism, Globalisation and Internationalism
Conclusion
Postscript: The Criminology of Time
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Paul Knepper is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Knepper, Paul (Paul Knepper Knepper, Knepper Paul
• Con la collaborazione di: Heiko Feldner (Editore), Kevin Passmore (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781472518538
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1853-8
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Writing History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Social and cultural history, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology