Crime And Culture
Subtitle: An Historical Perspective (Advances in Criminology)
Contributors: Amy Gilman Srebnick (Editor); Rene Levy (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780754623830
Subjects: Customary; Law; Sociology; Crime in literature; Criminology
First sentence: In the past ten years scholarly work on the history of crime has focused on several related topics: the history of specific, even celebrated, criminal events and their cultural meaning, the changing perceptions of crime and criminals over time, the relationship between crime and the development of mass culture.