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Comparative histories of crime /
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cullompton :
Willan,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: do you have plane-spotters in New Zealand? ; Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity / Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall
- It's a small world after all? Reflections on violence in comparative perspectives / John Carter Wood
- Moral panics and violent street crime 1750-2000: a comparative perspective / Peter King
- 'The great murder mystery' or explaining declining homicide rates / Maria Kaspersson
- Strangers, mobilisation and the production of weak ties: railway traffic and violence in nineteenth-century South-West Germany / Susanne Karstedt
- 'Inventing' the juvenile delinquent in nineteenth-century Europe / Heather Shore
- 'Scoundrels and scallywags, and some honest men ... ' Memoirs and the self-image of French and English policemen c.1870-1939 / Paul Lawrence
- Policing the seaside holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastian from the 1870s to the 1930s / John K. Walton
- 'The greatest efficiency': British and American military law, 1866-1918 / Gerry Oram
- The decline and renaissance of shame in modern penal systems / John Pratt
- Practical and philosophical dilemmas in cross-cultural research: the future of comparative crime history? / Bronwyn Morrison.