| Writing the History of Crime Contributor(s): Knepper, Paul (Author), Feldner, Heiko (Editor), Passmore, Kevin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472518535 ISBN-13: 9781472518538 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 2015011001 |
| Series: Writing History |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.15 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Writing the History of Crime investigates the development of historical writing on the subject of crime and its wider place in social and cultural history. It examines long-standing and emerging traditions in history writing, with separate chapters on legal and scientific approaches, as well as on urban, Marxist, gender and empire history. Each chapter then explores these historical approaches in relation to crime, paying particular attention to the relationship between theory and the interpretation of evidence. Rather than a timeline for the historical appearance of ideas about crime or a catalogue of the range of topics that comprise the subject matter, Writing the History of Crime reveals the ideas behind crime as a subject of historical investigation; it looks at how these ideas generate questions that may be asked about the past and the way in which these questions are answered. This is a crucial analysis for anyone interested in the history of crime, the historiography of social history or the art of history writing more broadly. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berger, Stefan: - Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.Passmore, Kevin: - Heiko Feldner is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, UK.Passmore, Kevin: - Heiko Feldner is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, UK.Berger, Stefan: - Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.Feldner, Heiko: - Heiko Feldner is co-director of the Centre for Ideology Critique and Zizek Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury's Writing History series on historiography and historical theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. A former lecturer in the departments of political economy and history at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, he has written several books, including Zizek: Beyond Foucault (with F. Vighi, Palgrave 2007).Knepper, Paul: - Paul Knepper is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield, UK. |