Description
This book is a collection of essays exploring how the history of crime provides a way to study time, place, and culture. The essays investigate the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries and provide new approaches to understanding crime in modern Western culture.
This collection explores how the history of crime provides a way to study time, place and culture. Investigates the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries and provides new approaches to understanding crime in modern Western culture.