Social History of Crime, Policing and Punishment (The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology)

The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology aims to present a publishing initiative that brings together the most significant contemporary published journal essays in criminology, criminal justice and penology. Topics discussed in this volume include the social-control theory in American history, property offences, social tension and racial antagonism in post-Civil War rural Louisiana, the criminality of women in 18th-century England, police authority in London and New York, policing and prosecution and the social histories of punishment.