Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History

by Clive Emsley

When is a crime a crime--or an act condoned by a significant portion of society? When is a criminal a criminal--or a revolutionary or a national hero? As the chapters in this collection make clear, what constitutes criminal activity varies, to a degree, among different societies and at different moments in a society's history. In this wide-ranging work, major historians of criminology and penology examine aspects of crime and criminal justice from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313287228
• ISBN13: 9780313287220
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"