Crime, madness, & politics in modern France : the medical concept of national decline / Robert A. Nye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nye, Robert A., author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion--France--History--19th century.

Public opinion.

Deviant behavior--Public opinion--History--19th century.

Deviant behavior.

Physicians--France--Attitudes--History--19th century.

Physicians.

Degeneration--Public opinion--History--19th century.

Degeneration.

Criminal justice, Administration of--France--History--19th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

France--Politics and government--1870-1940.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Other Title:

Crime, madness, and politics in modern France

Crime, madness, and politics in modern France.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance

Chapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic

Chapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology

Chapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis

Chapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century

Chapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense

Chapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies

Chapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival

Chapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 341-360.

ISBN:

9780691640532

069164053X

9780691612614

0691612617

9781400856275

1400856272

OCLC:

884013434