Crime and empire, 1840-1940 : criminal justice in local and global context /

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This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a peri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Godfrey, Barry S., Dunstall, Graeme
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or., USA : Willan Pub., 2005.
Temas:
1800-1999
Geschichte 1840-1940.
Criminal justice, Administration of > History > 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of > History > 20th century.
Colonies > Administration > History.
International law > History.
Crime > History > Cross-cultural studies.
Justice pénale > Administration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Justice pénale > Administration > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Colonies > Administration > Histoire.
Droit international > Histoire.
Criminalité > Histoire > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
British colonies
Colonies > Administration
Crime
Criminal justice, Administration of
International law
Strafjustiz
Great Britain > Colonies > Administration > History.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Administration > Histoire.
Großbritannien
Cross-cultural studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crime and empire: introduction / Graeme Dunstall and Barry S. Godfrey
  • The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century Europe / Clive Emsley
  • Explaining the history of punishment / John Pratt
  • Crimes of violence, crimes of empire? / Mark Finnane
  • Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia / Julie Evans
  • Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory / Mark Brown
  • Crime, the legal archive and postcolonial histories / Catherine Coleborne
  • Trace and transmissions: techno-scientific symbolism in early twentieth-century policing / Dean Wilson
  • The English model? Policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania / Stefan Petrow
  • The growth of crime and crime control in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920 / Barry S. Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall
  • (Re)presenting scandal: Charles Reade's advocacy of professionalism within the English prison system / Sarah Anderson
  • 'Saving our unfortunate sisters'? Establishing the first separate prison for women in New Zealand / Anna McKenzie
  • Maori police personnel and the rangatiratanga discourse / Richard S. Hill
  • 'To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India / Jane Buckingham
  • 'Everyday life' in Boer women 's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 / Helen Dampier
  • Codification of the criminal law: the Australasian parliamentary experience / Jeremy Finn.

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