Mobile Criminals: Crime and Punishment in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Epirus
Journal: V&R unipress eBooks
Year: 2024

Methodological frameworkCriminalityinthe modern era, especially since the industrial revolution, has been the focus of research, facilitated by the birth of scientific criminology and forensic medicine. 6 Over time, various books havemade their appearancefocusing on murder cases from Antiquityand the Middle Ages. 7 The term 'criminology' emerged at the end of the nineteenth century 'because agroup of theorists laid claim to systematic knowledge as to the nature of criminal behaviour, its causes