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1 maj 2016 · The Handbook includes thirty-four essays covering theory and methods; forms of crime; crime, gender, and ethnicities; cultural representations of crime; the rise of criminology; law enforcement and policing; law, courts, and criminal justice; and punishment and prisons.
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The essay’s main focus is on England and Wales (which had...
- 25 Police–Public Relations
Using examples from Britain, the United States, France, and...
- Women and Crime, 1750–2000
Legal and Constitutional History. Local and Family History....
- The Origins of “Modern” Policing
Abstract. The public police is an inseparable part of the...
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There are statistical models of crime trends, micro-histories of murder, and genealogies of punishment in society; police history, historical criminology, and postcolonial studies of law. This interdisciplinarity presents newcomers with a bewildering array of concepts and methods, discussions and debates that range across the social sciences ...
This article examines the relationship of historico-legal studies to the wider context of socio-legal studies. It issues a challenge to rethink the nature and role of legal history in the light of socio-legal theory and the extent to which it out to be used by legal scholars. The discussion explores the benefits to socio-legal studies of
Deciphering the relationship between history and socio-legal studies necessitates addressing institutional factors and interests as well as ideas. The modern disciplines of law, history, and socio-legal studies were in important respects constituted against each other, and as separate from one another.
This article explores the several conceptions of historical criminology found in the present literature, which associate it variously with archival research, practical inquiry, a concern with temporality, and a certain approach to interdisciplinary scholarship.
3 lis 2017 · Abstract. Although history, legal history, and socio‐legal studies significantly overlap in concerns, methods, values and history, and a common tradition, these commonalities are frequently overlooked. In seeking to promote greater dialogue between these disciplines, this article examines their complex interaction, arguing that the work of ...
1 maj 2016 · In contrast to this biological emphasis, Dutch criminology was overwhelmingly sociological. The sociological orientation of Dutch criminology was due mainly to the efforts of two socialists, Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–1940) and Clara Wichmann (1885–1922).
