Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)

Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment showcases a variety of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches that, taken together, frame historical analysis in the study and teaching of criminal law. Featuring work by historians, lawyers, theorists, and sociologists, Modern Histories approaches the history of crime and punishment not as the freestanding study of a distinct institution or body of legal doctrine, but as part of a broader inquiry into the webs of governance and control that constitute social and political life. Character, capacity, outcome : toward a framework for assessing the shifting pattern of criminal responsibility in modern English law / Nicola Lacey Criminal responsibility and the proof of guilt / Lindsay Farmer "An inducement to morbid minds" : politics and madness in the Victorian courtroom / Joel Peter Eigen The meaning of killing / Guyora Binder "An extraordinarily beautiful document" : Jefferson's bill for proportioning crimes and punishments and the challenge of Republican punishment / Markus D. Dubber The myth of private prosecution in England, 1790-1850 / Bruce P. Smith Hans Litten and the politics of criminal law in the Weimar Republic / Benjamin Hett Civilizing Darwin : Holmes on criminal law / Gerry Leonard Bodies, words, identities : the moving targets of the criminal law / Mariana Valverde Criminal law at a fault line of imperial authority : inter-racial homicide trials in British India / Martin Wiener Crime and punishment on the tea plantations of colonial India / Elizabeth Kolsky "Enfeebling the arm of justice" : perjury and prevarication in British India / Wendie Ellen Schneider. This is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.