Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84392-119-6
Verlag: Willan

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity?

Overall, the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcmahon, Richard

McMahon, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Popular Violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France 2. The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800 3. Royal Justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile 4. Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden 5. Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man 6. 'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland 7. Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900 8. Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland 9. 'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.