Crime History and Histories of Crime
Subtitle: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)
Contributors: Clive Emsley (Editor); Louis A. Knafla (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: February 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780313287220
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Criminal law; English law: criminal law; Historiography; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Criminology (General); Social Science; Sociology; Reference; Australia; New Zealand; North America; South America; Western Continental Europe; Criminology; Social Science / Criminology; Crime; History; Punishment
First sentence: Even as the number of historical studies in the area grows,1 the concept of crime is being called into question by the field in which it originated: criminology.2