Crime, police, and penal policy : European experiences 1750-1940 /
Crime, police, & penal policy
Clive Emsley.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- x, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Laws and punishments -- The understanding and nature of crime -- Coping with crime -- The new French system -- Crime and police in revolution and war -- Measuring a problem -- Danger in the city : danger in the countryside -- Protection, punishment, and reformation -- 'Scientific' criminology -- New professionals : old problems -- Penal policies and the impact of war -- Policing and punishing after the war -- National paths : common patterns.