Format:
Online-Ressource (213 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780415708555
Content:
This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice system, changing perceptions of criminals, long-term trends in violent crime, and the rise of surveillance society also receive detailed analysis. In addressing each of these issues and developments, th
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to second edition; 1 Introduction; The structure of the book; Does crime history have a history?; Part 1 Institutions and processes; 2 The development of policing; Introduction; The Old Police; The transition to the New Police; A golden age of policing?; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; 3 The role of the 'victim' since 1750; Introduction; 'Victims' and the prosecution of crime; Retribution, self-defence and other extra-judicial action; Victims and 'private' initiatives; Modern parallels; Conclusion
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Key questions4 The law and the courts; Introduction; An overview of the court system from 1750; Historians, law and the courts between 1750 and 1850; Historians, law and the courts since 1850; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; 5 Punishment since 1750; Introduction; Changing patterns of punishment since 1750; Historians, sociologists and the rise of the prison; Debates over punishment and welfare since 1850; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; Part 2 Crime and criminals; 6 Violence, war and terrorism; Introduction; Measuring levels of violence
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Explaining violence and violent crimeTerrorism and war; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; 7 Criminal others; Introduction; Poverty, crime and the 'criminal class'; Women and crime; Ethnicity and criminality; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; 8 Youth crime and gangs since 1750; Introduction; Inventing or discovering juvenile delinquency?; Later nineteenth-century 'reform'; Twentieth-century care and control; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; 9 Control and surveillance since 1750; Introduction; Workplace theft, 1750-1950
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Did the factory eradicate workplace theft?Watching the suspicious; Modern parallels; Conclusion; Key questions; 10 Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781134618057
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415708555
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Crime and Justice since 1750
Language:
English
Keywords:
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