Crime, police, and penal policy : European experiences 1750-1940 / Clive Emsley.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emsley, Clive
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of > Europe > History.
Punishment > Europe > History.
Crime > Government policy > Europe > History.
Physical Description:x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Crime, police, & penal policy. [Cover title]
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Laws and punishments
  • The understanding and nature of crime
  • Coping with crime
  • The new French system
  • Crime and police in revolution and war
  • Measuring a problem
  • Danger in the city : danger in the countryside
  • Protection, punishment, and reformation
  • 'Scientific' criminology
  • New professionals : old problems
  • Penal policies and the impact of war
  • Policing and punishing after the war
  • National paths : common patterns.