04246nam 22008053u 450 991077793060332120230126204006.01-134-00938-01-134-00931-31-282-07748-197866120774871-84392-580-X(CKB)1000000000767573(EBL)449568(OCoLC)609842424(SSID)ssj0000358488(PQKBManifestationID)11248210(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358488(PQKBWorkID)10377874(PQKB)11690074(MiAaPQ)EBC449568(MiAaPQ)EBC5268549(Au-PeEL)EBL5268549(CaONFJC)MIL207748(OCoLC)1024274197(EXLCZ)99100000000076757320130701d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrime and Empire 1840 - 1940[electronic resource]Hoboken Taylor and Francis20131 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-69683-X 1-84392-108-1 Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Notes on the editors and contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Crime and empire: introduction; 2 The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth century Europe; 3 Explaining the history of punishment; 4 Crimes of violence, crimes of empire?; 5 Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia; 6 Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory; 7 Crime, the legal archive and postcolonial histories; 8 Traces and transmissions: techno-scientific symbolism in early-twentieth-century policing9 The English model? Policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania10 The growth of crime and crime control in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920; 11 (Re)presenting scandal: Charles Reade's advocacy of professionalism within the English prison system; 12 'Saving our unfortunate sisters'? Establishing the first separate prison for women in New Zealand; 13 Maori police personnel and the rangatiratanga discourse; 14 'To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India15 'Everyday life' in Boer women's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-190216 Codification of the criminal law: the Australian parliamentary experience; IndexThis book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond.Criminal justice, Administration ofCriminal justice, Administration ofHistory19th centuryCross-cultural studiesCriminal justice, Administration ofHistory20th centuryColoniesHistoryAdministrationInternational lawHistoryCrimeHistorySocial Welfare & Social WorkHILCCCriminology, Penology & Juvenile DelinquencyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCCriminal justice, Administration of.Criminal justice, Administration ofHistoryCriminal justice, Administration ofHistoryColoniesHistoryAdministrationInternational lawHistoryCrimeHistorySocial Welfare & Social WorkCriminology, Penology & Juvenile DelinquencySocial Sciences364.9034Godfrey Barry1114940Dunstall Graeme1506915AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910777930603321Crime and Empire 1840 - 19403737341UNINA