Shame, Blame, and Culpability: Crime and violence in the modern state (Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories)

This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from familiar locations in western Europe. Ranging from the early modern to the late twentieth century, the collection has implications for how we understand punishments imposed by states or the community today. Shame, blame and culpability is divided into three sections, with a crucial case study part complementing two theoretical parts on shame, and on blame and culpability; exploring the continuance of shaming strategies and examining their interaction with and challenge to 'modern' state-sponsored blaming mechanisms, including allocations of culpability. The collection includes chapters on the deviant body, capital punishment and, of particular interest, Russian case studies, which demonstrate the extent to which the Russian, like the Greek, experience need to be seen as part of a wider European whole when examining ideas and themes. The volume challenges ideas that shame strategies were largely eradicated in post-Enlightenment western states and societies; showing their survival into the twentieth century as a challenge to state dominance over identification of what constituted 'crime' and also over punishment practices. Shame, blame and culpability will be a key text for students and academics in the fields of criminology and crime, gender or European history Introduction / Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva And David Nash -- Part I. Theorising Shame.: Vergűenza, Vergogne, Schande, Skam And Sram : Litigating For Shame And Dishonour In Early Modern Europe / Marianna Muravyeva -- Fama, Shame Punishments And The History Of Justice In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries / Antonella Bettoni -- Towards An Agenda For The Wider Study Of Shame : Theorising From Nineteenth-century British Evidence / David Nash -- Part Ii. Rethinking Blame.: The Shifting Nature Of Blame : Revisiting Issues Of Blame, Shame And Culpability In The English Criminal Justice System / Judith Rowbotham -- Guilty Before The Face? : The Deviant Body And The Chimera Of 'precrime', 1877-1939 / Neil Davie -- The 'convict Stain' : Desistence In The Penal Colony / Barry Godfrey -- Part Iii. Issues Of Authority In Shame, Blame And Culpability.: Penance, Compensation, Terror : The Theory And Practice Of Capital Punishment In Early Modern France / Paul Friedland -- Hurt, Harm And Humiliation : Community Responses To Deviant Behaviour In Early Modern Scotland / Anne-marie Kilday -- Violence Against Honour : Shame And The Crime Of Rape In The Age Of The Greek Revolution (1821-1828) / Katerina Mousadakou -- 'treat Them According To The European Traditio' : The Discourse Of Blaming The Poor, The Problem Of Professional Beggars And Attitudes To Poverty In Modern Russia / Julia Barlova -- Shaming Punishments Of Women In Russia In The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries / Natalia Pushkareva -- Insulting The Russian Royal Family : Crime, Blame And Its Sources / Boris Kolonitsky -- Crime And Culpability In The Community, The Newspapers And The Courts : The Case Of The Feuding Society Of The Feuding Society Of Crete (greece) / Aris Tsantiropoulos. Edited By Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva, And David Nash. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Notes on contributors 8 Preface: Towards a history of shaming and blaming 12 Acknowledgements 16 Introduction 17 PART I Theorising shame 31 1 Vergüenza, vergogne, schande, skam and sram: litigating for shame and dishonour in early modern Europe 32 2 Fama, shame punishments and the history of justice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 47 3 Towards an agenda for the wider study of shame: theorising from nineteenth-century British evidence 58 PART II Rethinking blame 75 4 The shifting nature of blame: revisiting issues of blame, shame and culpability in the English criminal justice system 76 5 Guilty before the fact? The deviant body and the chimera of ‘precrime’, 1877–1939 93 6 The ‘convict stain’: desistence in the penal colony 109 PART III Issues of authority in shame, blame and culpability 122 7 Penance, compensation, terror: the theory and practice of capital punishment in early modern France 123 8 Hurt, harm and humiliation: community responses to deviant behaviour in early modern Scotland 136 9 Violence against honour: shame and the crime of rape in the age of the Greek Revolution (1821–1828) 153 10 ‘Treat them according to the European tradition’: the discourse of blaming the poor, the problem of professional beggars and attitudes to poverty in modern Russia 164 11 Shaming punishments of women in Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 180 12 Insulting the Russian royal family: crime, blame and its sources 196 13 Crime and culpability in the community, the newspapers and the courts: the case of the feuding society of Crete (Greece) 211 Bibliography 227 Index 232 Crime and violence in the modern state