Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000
Autor A. Kilday, D. Nashen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2010
Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years,Histories of Crimeexplores the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over time. Bringing together contributions from internationally acknowledged
experts, the book highlights themes, current issues and key debates in the history of deviance and bad behaviour, including:
? marital cruelty and adultery
? infanticide
? murder
? the underworld
? blasphemy and moral crimes
? fraud and white-collar crime
? the death penalty and punishment.
Individual case studies of violent and non-violent crime are used to explore the human means and motives behind criminal practice. Through these, the book illuminates society's wider attitudes and fears about criminal behaviour and the way in which these influence the law and legal system over time. This fascinating book is essential reading for students and teachers of history, sociology and criminology, as well as anyone interested in Britain's criminal past.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780230224704
ISBN-10: 0230224709
Pagini: 900
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:2010
Editura: Macmillan Education UK
Colecția Red Globe Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0230224709
Pagini: 900
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:2010
Editura: Macmillan Education UK
Colecția Red Globe Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction.-
Moral
Crimes
and
the
Law
in
Britain
Since
1700;
D.Nash.-
Cruelty
and
Adultery:
Offences
Against
the
Institution
of
Marriage;
J.Bailey.-
Desperate
Measures
or
Cruel
Intentions:
Infanticide
in
Britain
since
1600;
A.M.Kilday.-
'Most
Intimate
Violations':
Contextualising
the
Crime
of
Rape;
K.Stevenson.-
Murder
and
Fatality:
The
Changing
Face
of
Homicide;
S.D'Cruze.-
Criminality,
Deviance
and
The
Underworld
Since
1750;
H.Shore.-
Fraud
and
White
Collar
Crime:
1850
to
the
Present;
S.Wilson.-
Policing
the
Populace:
the
road
to
Professionalisation;
C.Williams.-
Execution
as
Punishment
in
England,
1750-2000;
J.Rowbotham.-
Annotated
Further
Reading.
Notă biografică
ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Principal Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on the history of violent crime and the history of female criminality since the early modern period.
DAVID NASH is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of the history of blasphemy, blasphemous libel and religious crime for over fifteen years. He is also author ofCultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1650-1900(with Anne-Marie Kilday).
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Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years,Histories of Crimeexplores the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over time. Bringing together contributions from internationally acknowledged
experts, the book highlights themes, current issues and key debates in the history of deviance and bad behaviour, including:
? marital cruelty and adultery
? infanticide
? murder
? the underworld
? blasphemy and moral crimes
? fraud and white-collar crime
? the death penalty and punishment.
Individual case studies of violent and non-violent crime are used to explore the human means and motives behind criminal practice. Through these, the book illuminates society's wider attitudes and fears about criminal behaviour and the way in which these influence the law and legal system over time. This fascinating book is essential reading for students and teachers of history, sociology and criminology, as well as anyone interested in Britain's criminal past.
Caracteristici
Crime
is
a
subject
that
holds
a
stong
fascination
not
only
with
the
general
reader,
but
also
with
students
and
scholars
and
is
a
rapidly
growing
subject
area
for
student
courses
and
research
Covers the central aspects of crime history in individual, freestanding chapters
Written by internationally acknowledged experts from a range of institutions
Covers the central aspects of crime history in individual, freestanding chapters
Written by internationally acknowledged experts from a range of institutions