Full Description
Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment showcases a variety of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches that, taken together, frame historical analysis in the study and teaching of criminal law. Featuring work by historians, lawyers, theorists, and sociologists, Modern Histories approaches the history of crime and punishment not as the freestanding study of a distinct institution or body of legal doctrine, but as part of a broader inquiry into the webs of governance and control that constitute social and political life.
Contents
Contents Contributors iii Introduction: Regarding Criminal Law Historically Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer 1 1. Character, Capacity, Outcome: Toward a Framework for Assessing the Shifting Pattern of Criminal Responsibility in Modern English Law Nicola Lacey 000 2. Criminal Responsibility and the Proof of Guilt Lindsay Farmer 000 3. "An Inducement to Morbid Minds": Politics and Madness in the Victorian Courtroom Joel Peter Eigen 000 4. The Meaning of Killing Guyora Binder 000 5. "An Extraordinarily Beautiful Document": Jefferson's Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments and the Challenge of Republican Punishment Markus D. Dubber 000 6. The Myth of Private Prosecution in England, 1790-1850 Bruce P. Smith 000 7. Hans Litten and the Politics of Criminal Law in the Weimar Republic Benjamin Hett 000 8. Civilizing Darwin: Holmes on Criminal Law Gerry Leonard 000 9. Bodies, Words, Identities: The Moving Targets of the Criminal Law Mariana Valverde 000 10. Criminal Law at a Fault Line of Imperial Authority: Inter- Racial Homicide Trials in British India Martin Wiener 000 11. Crime and Punishment on the Tea Plantations of Colonial India Elizabeth Kolsky 000 12. "Enfeebling the Arm of Justice": Perjury and Prevarication in British India Wendie Ellen Schneider 000 Index
