Crime, Punishment, and Reform in Europe

Author: Louis A. Knafla
Published: April 2003
ISBN: 0313310149
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 280

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This volume contains essays on the history of crime, punishment, and reform in Europe from the 18th century onward. It also contains two long book review essays, and 22 book reviews on major works that have appeared in the subject from the mid-1990s. Examines the history of crime, punishment, and reform in Europe from the 18th century onward.

Table of Contents
Tables
Preface
Introduction
Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux, 1715-24 1
Popular Culture and the Arbitration of Disputes: Northern Spain in the Eighteenth Century 39
The Fall of the Sessions Paper: The Criminal Trial and the Popular Press in Late Eighteenth-Century London 57
"I Can Bear Punishment": Daniel Isaac Eaton, Radical Culture and the Rule of Law, 1793-1812 89
Legitimacy in the Evolution of the Prison: The Chatham Convict Prison Outbreak, 1861 107
The Criminalization of Youth in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italy 121
The Reform of Offenders in England, 1830-1995: A Circular Debate 145
"Launched into Eternity": Public Hanging in Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 163
V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 163
Brian Henry, Dublin Hanged: Crime, Law Enforcement and Punishment in Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin 163
From Bad Business to the State of Our Prisons: Four Tales of Contemporary Criminality, Policing, and Incarceration 174
Dick Hobbs, Bad Business 174
John Kleinig, The Ethics of Policing 174
Nigel G. Fielding, Community Policing 174
Rodney D. King and Kathleen McDermott, The State of Our Prisons 174
Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker, eds., Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England 195
R. F. Hunnisett, ed., Sussex Coroners' Inquests 1558-1603 196
Glyn Parry, A Guide to the Records of Great Sessions in Wales 198
B. J. Davey, Rural Crime in the Eighteenth Century: North Lincolnshire, 1740-80 201
Peter King, Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820 205
Chantal Stebbings, ed., Law Reporting in Britain 207
Alan Frost, Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings 210
Radhika Singha, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Criminal Justice in Early Colonial India 214
Paolo Marchetti, Testis contra se: L'imputato come fonte di prova nel processo penale dell'eta moderna 218
Patrizia Guarnieri, A Case of Child Murder: Law and Science in Nineteenth-Century Tuscany 218
Colm Campbell, Emergency Law in Ireland 1918-1925 223
John Horne and Alan Kramer, German Atrocities 1914: A History of Denial 225
Richard J. Evans, Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 229
C. M. V. Clarkson and R. Morgan, eds., The Politics of Sentencing Reform 233
Michael Tonry, Sentencing Matters 233
Norval Morris and David J. Rothman, eds., The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Imprisonment in Western Society 236
Index 241
About the Editor and Contributors 253

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