Crime, police, and penal policy
Subtitle: European experiences 1750-1940
By: Clive Emsley.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199202850
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe -- History; Punishment -- Europe -- History; Crime -- Government policy -- Europe -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Laws and punishments; title: The understanding and nature of crime; title: Coping with crime; title: The new French system; title: Crime and police in revolution and war; title: Measuring a problem; title: Danger in the city : danger in the countryside; title: Protection, punishment, and reformation; title: 'Scientific' criminology; title: New professionals : old problems; title: Penal policies and the impact of war; title: Policing and punishing after the war; title: National paths : common patterns.