- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
Acknowledged as one of the best introductions to the history of crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 examines thedevelopments in policing, the courts, and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. The book challenges the old but still influential idea that crime can be attributed to the behaviour of a criminal class and that changes in the criminal justice system were principally the work of far-sighted, humanitarian reformers. In this fourth edition of his now classic account, Professor Emsley draws on new research that has shifted the focus from class to gender, from property crime to violent crime and towards media constructions of offenders, while still maintaining a balance with influential early work in the area. Wide-ranging and accessible, the new edition examines:the value of criminal statistics the effect that contemporary ideas about class and gender had on perceptions of criminalitychanges in the patterns of crimedevelopments in policing and the spread of summary punishmentthe increasing formality of the courtsthe growth of the prison as the principal form of punishment and debates about the decline in corporal and capital punishmentsThoroughly updated throughout, the fourth edition also includes, for the first time, illuminating contemporary illustrations.
Contents
List of IllustrationsList of tables and figures Preface and acknowledgements to the fourth edition Abbreviations used in notes1. Introduction: crime and the law2. The statistical map 3. Class perceptions 4. Gender perceptions 5. Environmental perceptions 6. Fiddles, perks and pilferage 7. The criminal class and professional criminals8. Prosecutors and the courts 9. Detection and prevention: the old police and the new10. Punishment and reformation11. Concluding remarksFurther reading: further researchIndex
