Crime and civilization : the birth of criminology in the early nineteenth century / Janne Kivivuori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kivivuori, Janne, author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Europe--History--19th century.

Criminology.

Criminal statistics--Europe--History--19th century.

Criminal statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Drawing on original French, German, and English publications, 'Crime and Civilization' explores the rise of data-based criminology as an intellectual field in continental Europe in the early nineteenth century, spanning from Enlightenment philosophers to the general rise of science in society.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

1 Introduction

Background

Historical context

Restoration period

The international scene

A living tradition

The challenge of periodization

Focus on instruments and data

Three data revolutions of criminology

First criminology

Second criminology

Third criminology

Prior research

Methodological reflections

Sources

Interpretation

Structure

2 Thinking about crime before criminology

Introduction

Critique of repressive norms

New criminal justice policy

Focus on labelling

Learning and crime

Contagion of vice

Learning to suppress crime

The counternarrative

Luxury of the poor

Balzac's crime prevention manual

Evidentiary bases before systematic data

Contrasting with foreign lands

Practical perspective

3 Civilization debate

From state consolidation to European security order

Criminology as fear-inspired control?

Civilization and the crime drop

Crime rhetoric

Dupin and the map wars

Beyle on civilization

4 Breakthrough to data 1825-1827

From vehicle to content

The vehicle

The Kriminaltabellen stage

Montyon

Guerry de Champneuf

Research programme

Research aims

Emerging social science

A space allowing civilized disagreement

Against vague theories and systems

Focusing on empirical solvability

Reception

Governing through crime?

Constituting a research field

5 First criminology

Charles Lucas

Adolphe Quetelet

André-Michel Guerry

Emerging theory

Routine activities

Education: enthusiasm and reservations

Enter morality

Strain theory

Social causation

Consilience

6 Anchoring criminal justice to facts

Introduction.

The foil and the halo

Mildening of manners and mores

Preventive justice

Prison reform

Liancourt descending to Hell . . .

. . . and witnessing a Northern paradise

Beaumont-Tocqueville expedition

Using numbers in evaluation

The Auburn survey

The cost perspective

Empirical study of criminal justice

Evaluating official control

Exploring unintended variation

7 French civilization and German Kultur

Julius

International criminology

Believing, knowing, having

Mittermaier

Medical metaphor

Civilization-Kultur controversy

Multiple factor theory

Institutional and social embeddedness of crime statistics

Zachariä

Futility

Mismatch

Perversity

German reception

8 Insight from critique: the Genevans

The murdered criminologist

Social facts

Principles of cross-national comparison

Plan for Switzerland

The botanist

Crimes in the shadows

Recording ladder

The essential conditions of crime

Validity through critique

9 From piecemeal reform to incremental research

England: prequel or sequel?

Romilly

Call for returns

Feelings and facts

Peel praising the Compte

Creation of a society

Replicating Guerry

Using English data

Methodological reflection

The dynamics of interconnected fields

The role of criminal law reformers

Decentred and bureaucratic models

Against systems and opinions

10 The origins of criminology

Structural conditions

State consolidation

Codification and legal transplants

The generation of 1820

Intentions in context

Fear of what?

Civilization as process and project

Most remarkable uniformity

Conclusion

Silences

Seeds of later revolutions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780198909828

0198909829

9780198909804

0198909802

OCLC:

1458822232