Cover Image

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emsley, Clive
Format: eBook
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.
Crime > Government policy.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Punishment.
Europe.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.