History, Legal History, Criminology, Law, Criminal Justice, Administration, International law, Cross-cultural studies, Louis A. Knafla, United Kingdom Crime and Punishment, Crime and punishment 

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond.  

Contents:
Crime and empire: introduction / Graeme Dunstall and Barry S. Godfrey -- The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century Europe / Clive Emsley -- Explaining the history of punishment / John Pratt -- Crimes of violence, crimes of empire? / Mark Finnane -- Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia / Julie Evans -- Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory / Mark Brown -- Crime, the legal archive and postcolonial histories / Catharine Coleborne -- Traces and transmissions: techno-scientific symbolism in early twenteith-century policing / Dean Wilson -- The English model? policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania / Stefan Petrow -- The growth of crime and crime contorl in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920 / Barry S. Godfrey and Grahame Dunstall -- (Re)presenting scandal: Charles Reade's advocacy of professionalism within the English prison system / Sarah Anderson -- 'Saving' our unfortunate sisters'? Establishing the first separate prison for women in New Zealand / Anna McKenzie -- Maori police personnel and the rangatiratanga discourse / Richard S. Hill -- 'To make the precedent fir the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India / Jane Buckingham -- 'Everyday life' in Boer women's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 / Helen Dampier -- Codification of the criminal law: the Australasian parliamentary experience / Jeremy Finn.  

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.