The Criminals and their Scientists
- Author(s)
- Peter Becker, Richard Wetzell
- Abstract
This book presents recent research on the history of criminology from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the history of criminology as a history of science and practice, the chapters examine the discourse on crime and criminals that surfaced as part of different discourses and practices, including the activities of the police and the courts, parliamentary debates, and media reports, as well as the writings of moral statisticians, jurists, and medical doctors. By providing a comparative study of the worldwide reception of Cesare Lombroso’s criminal-anthropological ideas, the book seeks to elucidate the relationship between criminological discourse and politics, society, and culture.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of History
- External organisation(s)
- Deutsches Historisches Institut, Washington, DC
- No. of pages
- 492
- Publication date
- 2006
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603123 History of science, 505008 Criminology, 601016 Austrian history, 601014 Modern history
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/the-criminals-and-their-scientists(740dc40a-8346-4e82-9d95-521b65b08905).html