Specialties, Criminology, Sociology, Comparative Study, Crime 

"This work both reflects and advances current thinking on comparative, cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. The wide scope of its content broadens the focus of the historical context of crime and policing in order to reflect cross-national and cross-cultural factors." - Voila 

Content:
Introduction: do you have plane-spotters in New Zealand? ; Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity / Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall -- It's a small world after all? Reflections on violence in comparative perspectives / John Carter Wood -- Moral panics and violent street crime 1750-2000: a comparative perspective / Peter King -- 'The great murder mystery' or explaining declining homicide rates / Maria Kaspersson -- Strangers, mobilisation and the production of weak ties: railway traffic and violence in nineteenth-century South-West Germany / Susanne Karstedt -- 'Inventing' the juvenile delinquent in nineteenth-century Europe / Heather Shore -- 'Scoundrels and scallywags, and some honest men ... ' Memoirs and the self-image of French and English policemen c.1870-1939 / Paul Lawrence -- Policing the seaside holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastian from the 1870s to the 1930s / John K. Walton -- 'The greatest efficiency': British and American military law, 1866-1918 / Gerry Oram -- The decline and renaissance of shame in modern penal systems / John Pratt -- Practical and philosophical dilemmas in cross-cultural research: the future of comparative crime history? / Bronwyn Morrison. 

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