A Global History of Crime and Punishment
Publishing Details
A Global History of Crime and Punishment
By (Author) Prof. Clive Emsley
Edited by Sara McDougall
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
10th August 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
364.9
Physical Properties
Contains 6 hardbacks
Width 169mm, Height 244mm
Description
What constituted a crime 2,500 years ago, and how was criminal activity dealt with How has our definition of justice evolved over time alongside developments in law, society, religion and class structures 36 experts address these pressing questions in a six-volume reference set that spans 2,500 years of human history. Integrating perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in the ever-changing criminal and justice worlds against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 2000+). Themes include crime, types of criminal, law enforcement, sanctions and representations of crime and punishment. The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp. with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
Author Bio
Clive Emsley is Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987), The English Police: A Political and Social History (1991) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999). Sara McDougall is Associate Professor of History at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA. She is the author of Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012).
