The civilization of crime
Subtitle: violence in town and country since the Middle Ages
By: edited by Eric A. Johnson and Eric H. Monkkonen.
Contributors: Johnson, Eric A. 1948-; Monkkonen, Eric H., 1942-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Violent crimes -- Europe -- History.; Violent crimes -- Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime in England : long-term trends and the problem of modernization / J. A. Sharpe; title: Criminality, social control, and the early modern state : evidence and interpretations in Scandinavian historiography / Eva Østerberg; title: Long-term trends in homicide : theoretical reflections and Dutch evidence, fifteenth to twentieth centuries / Pieter Spierenburg; title: The Hundred Years' War and crime in Paris, 1332-1488 / Esther Cohen; title: Ecclesiastical justice and Counter-Reformation : notes on the diocesan criminal court of Naples / Michele Mancino; title: Between town and countryside : organized crime in the Dutch Republic / Florike Egmond; title: Urban and rural criminal justice and criminality in the Netherlands since the late Middle Ages / Herman Diederiks; title: For God, state, and people : crime and local justice in preindustrial Sweden / Jan Sundin; title: Urban and rural crime rates and their genesis in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Britain / Barbara Weinberger; title: Urban and rural crime in Germany, 1871-1914 / Eric A. Johnson.