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An eye for an eye : a global history of crime and punishment  Cover Image Book Book

An eye for an eye : a global history of crime and punishment / Mitchel P. Roth.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781780233598
  • ISBN: 1780233590
  • Physical Description: 342 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: London : Reaktion Books, Ltd, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-330) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Crime and punishment : in the beginning -- The rise of legal traditions -- Crime in a changing landscape : from feudalism to the city and the state -- The transformation of punishment and the rise of the penitentiary -- Highwaymen, bandits, brigands and bushrangers : bands of thieves and early organized criminality -- Prohibitions, pirates, slave traders, drug smugglers and the internationalization of criminality -- The face of modern murder -- Crime and punishment in a post-colonial world -- Crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.
Subject: Punishment > History.
Crime > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > History.
Crime > History.
Punishment > History.
Social Problems > History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library HV 8501 .R68 2014 30775305487432 General Collection Available -


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