NCJ Number
147017
Editor(s)
L A Knafla
Date Published
1992
Length
292 pages
Annotation
This book contains articles that relate to the history of crime and criminal justice and to its broader social, historical, legal, and institutional contexts in any geographical area or period.
Abstract
This volume contains seven articles: (1) German Crime in the Later Middle Ages: A Statistical Analysis of the Nuremberg Outlawry Books, 1285-1400; (2) Women and the Penal System in Frankfurt am Main, 1562-1696; (3) Wrath and Redemption: Protestant Theology and Penal Practice in the Early American Republic; (4) Children, Urbanization, and the Chances of Imprisonment in Mid-Victorian England; (5) Kanaka Slaves or Willing Workers? Melanesian Workers and the Queensland Criminal Justice System in the 1890s; (6) Indios, Fanaticos, Bandidos: Labeling the Millenarian Movement at Tomochic, Mexico; and (7) Law Enforcement and Crime in America: The View from Germany, 1920-40. There are two book review essays and 12 book reviews. There is one research note: The Police Archives of England and Wales. Footnotes, index, list of contributors