An eye for an eye
Subtitle: a global history of crime and punishment
By: Mitchel P. Roth
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781780233598
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; History; Punishment; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime and punishment : in the beginning; title: The rise of legal traditions; title: Crime in a changing landscape : from feudalism to the city and the state; title: The transformation of punishment and the rise of the penitentiary; title: Highwaymen, bandits, brigands and bushrangers : bands of thieves and early organized criminality; title: Prohibitions, pirates, slave traders, drug smugglers and the internationalization of criminality; title: The face of modern murder; title: Crime and punishment in a post-colonial world; title: Crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.