Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940

✍ Scribed by Clive Emsley

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley attempts to address these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment.The book focuses on the comparative nature in which different states studied each other and their institutions, and the ways in which different reformers exchanged ideas and investigated policing and penal experiments in other countries. It also explores the theoretical issues underpinning recent research, emphasising that the changes in ideas on crime and criminals were neither linear nor circular, and demonstrating clearly that many ideas hailed as new by contemporary politicians and in current debate on crime and its 'solutions', have a very long and illustrious history.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 14
I. THE OLD REGIME AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 28
2. Laws and Punishments......Page 30
3. The Understanding and Nature of Crime......Page 54
4. Coping with Crime......Page 70
II. THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA......Page 88
5. The New French System......Page 90
6. Crime and Police in Revolution and War......Page 109
III. THE DISCOVERY OF THE CRIMINAL CLASSES......Page 128
7. Measuring a Problem......Page 130
8. Danger in the City: Danger in the Countryside......Page 148
9. Protection, Punishment, and Reformation......Page 173
IV. THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE......Page 192
10. ‘Scientific’ Criminology......Page 194
11. New Professionals: Old Problems......Page 213
V. THE FACES OF PENAL WELFARE......Page 238
12. Penal Policies and the Impact of War......Page 240
13. Policing and Punishing after the War......Page 259
14. National Paths: Common Patterns......Page 280
Bibliographical Note......Page 288
C......Page 292
F......Page 293
K......Page 294
O......Page 295
R......Page 296
W......Page 297
Z......Page 298