Crime and culture : an historical perspective / edited by Amy Gilman Srebnick and Rene Levy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lévy, René.

Srebnick, Amy Gilman.

Series:

Advances in criminology.

Advances in Criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime in literature.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps, graphs, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Scholarly interest in the history of crime has grown dramatically in recent years. Adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth century, this collection explores how the history of crime provides a way to study time, place and culture.

Contents:

Does the representation fit the crime? : some thoughts on writing crime history as historical text / Amy Gilman Srebnick

Criminological language and prose from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Peter Becker

Science and narrative in Italian criminology, 1880-1920 / Mary Gibson

Robert Heindl's Berufsverbrecher : police perceptions of crime and criminals and structures of crime control in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century / Herbert Reinke

Narratives of crime, historical interpretation, and the course of human events : the Becker case and American progressivism / Allen Steinberg

Sergeant Goddard : the story of a rotten apple, or a diseased orchard? / Clive Emsley

Competing memories : resistance, collaboration, and the purge of the French police after World War II / Jean-Marc Berliere

Facts and fiction in police illegalisms : the case of controlled deliveries of drugs in France in the early 1990s / Rene Levy

Private crimes and public executions : discourses on guilt in the arrets criminels of the eighteenth-century parliament of Paris / Pascal Bastien

Rebels or bandits? : the representations of the 'Peasants' War' in Belgian departments under French rule (1798) / Xavier Rousseaux

The multiple lives of the Hungarian highwayman / Monika Matay and Gyorgy Csepeli

From Old Cap Collier to Nick Carter : or, Images of crime and criminal justice in American dime novel detective stories, 1880-1920 / Wilbur R. Miller.

Notes:

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-94762-1

1-138-37831-3

1-315-25896-X

9781315258966

OCLC:

975224699