ABSTRACT

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world. News reports proclaim "epidemics" of crime, while politicians denounce terrorism as a lethal pathological threat. Recent years have even witnessed the development of a new subfield, "epidemiological criminology," which merges public health with criminal justice to provide analytical tools for criminal justice practitioners and health care professionals. Little attention, however, has been paid to the historical contexts of these disease and crime equations, or to the historical continuities and discontinuities between contemporary invocations of crime as disease and the emergence of criminology, epidemiology, and public health in the second half of the nineteenth century. When, how and why did this pathologization of crime and criminalization of disease come about? This volume addresses these critical questions, exploring the discursive construction of crime and disease across a range of geographical and historical settings.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Pathologizing Crime, Criminalizing Disease

part I|73 pages

Part I

chapter 1|17 pages

Hong Kong's Floating World

Disease and Crime at the Edge of Empire

chapter 3|23 pages

Pathological Properties

Scenes of Crime, Sites of Infection

chapter 4|13 pages

Morality Plays

Presentations of Criminality and Disease in Nazi Ghettos and Concentration Camps

part II|76 pages

Part II

chapter 5|18 pages

The “Bad” and the “Sick”

Medicalizing Deviance in China

chapter 6|16 pages

Contagious Wilderness

Avian Flu and Suburban Riots in the French Media

chapter 7|22 pages

The Criminalization of Industrial Disease

Epidemiology in a Japanese Asbestos Lawsuit