Writing the History of Crime

Paul Knepper is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• Introduction1. Legal History: Crime or Criminal Justice?2. Statistics, Trends and Techniques3. Mind and Body, Civilisation and Evolution4. The British Marxist Historians5. The City: Underclass, Underworld and Urban Disorder6. Foucault and the Cultural Turn7. Women's History, Feminist Perspectives8. Colonialism, Globalisation and InternationalismConclusionPostscript: The Criminology of TimeBibliographyIndex

The evaluation, breadth, depth and chronology of subject matter and integration of commentators’ perspectives (past and present) is astounding ... The embedded knowledge and cognition displayed here is humbling and could only have been produced by someone who is most genuinely and assuredly not just a crime history specialist but an ‘expert crime history expert’; Knepper therefore more than deserves his place amongst the literary greats and academics he references ... The book is an outstanding compendium of the history of crime and the criminal justice process ... [It] is therefore the 'go to' book and 'must read' for not only those starting out on their journey to study and research the history of crime, but for all of us interested and engaged in this work.