ABSTRACT
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and criminology. Overall the book aims to broaden the focus of the historical context of crime and policing to take fuller account of cross-national and cross-cultural factors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |35 pages
Introduction
Do you have plane-spotters in New Zealand? Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity
chapter |21 pages
Strangers, mobilisation and the production of weak ties
railway traffic and violence in nineteenth-century South-West Germany
chapter |14 pages
Policing the seaside holiday
Blackpool and San Sebastián, from the 1870s to the 1930s
chapter |18 pages
Practical and philosophical dilemmas in cross-cultural research
the Future of Comparative Crime History?
