Drawing on perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy, and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in crime and justice against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts from 500 BCE to the present.

Law & Social Inquiry

<i>A global history of crime and punishment</i> gives the reader a multifaceted picture of a complicated phenomenon…[the articles] are all of excellent quality, offering important insights based on high-level recent research. [They] are well written, interesting, and an excellent addition to this kind of multi-volume work.

Comparative Legal History

What constituted a crime 2,500 years ago, and how was criminal activity dealt with? How has our definition of justice evolved over time alongside developments in law, society, religion and class structures? 36 experts address these pressing questions in a six-volume reference set that spans 2,500 years of human history. Integrating perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in the ever-changing criminal and justice worlds against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 – 2000+).Themes include crime, types of criminal, law enforcement, sanctions and representations of crime and punishment. The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp. with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
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Volume 1: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in Antiquity Edited by Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, USA Volume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age Edited by Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Volume 3: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance Edited by Laura Stokes and Michael Menna, both Stanford University, USA Volume 4: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by Xavier Rousseaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Volume 5: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Empire Edited by Mark Finnane, Griffith University, Australia Volume 6: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age Edited by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK
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Traces 2,500 years of the global history of crime and punishment from antiquity to the present day.
36 experts, 36 chapters and c. 1,728 pages consolidates and develops our understanding of how methods and practices within crime and punishment have evolved since antiquity

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472584847
Publisert
2023-08-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Kombinasjonsprodukt

Biographical note

Clive Emsley was Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987), The English Police: A Political and Social History (1991) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999).

Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. She is the author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (2017). She has co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History.