Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective
Peter Becker, Richard F. Wetzell
This book presents research on the history of criminology from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the history of criminology as a history of science and practice, the essays examine the discourse on crime and criminals that surfaced as part of different discourses and practices, including the activities of the police and the courts, parliamentary debates, media reports, as well as the writings of moral statisticians, jurists, and medical doctors. In addition, the book seeks to elucidate the relationship between criminological discourse and politics, society, and culture by providing a comparative study of the worldwide reception of Cesare Lombroso's criminal-anthropological
年:
2006
版:
1st
出版社:
Cambridge University Press
言語:
english
ページ:
524
ISBN 10:
1316038076
ISBN 13:
9781316038079
シリーズ:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
ファイル:
PDF, 4.34 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006