The Old Regime and the Enlightenment. Laws and punishments -- The understanding and nature of crime -- Coping with crime -- The Revolutionary Era. The new French system -- Crime and police in revolution and war -- The Discovery of the Criminal Classes. Measuring a problem -- Danger in the city : danger in the countryside -- Protection, punishment, and reformation -- The Application of Science. 'Scientific' criminology -- New professionals : old problems -- The Faces of Penal Welfare. Penal policies and the impact of war -- Policing and punishing after the war -- National paths : common patterns.
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"How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley explores these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment"--Jacket.
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Crime, police, and penal policy.
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European experiences 1750-1940
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Cover Title
Crime, police, & penal policy
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Crime-- Government policy-- Europe-- History.
Criminal justice, Administration of-- Europe-- History.
Punishment-- Europe-- History.
Criminalité-- Politique gouvernementale-- Europe-- Histoire.
Justice pénale-- Administration-- Europe-- Histoire.