04093nam 2200745 a 450 991081035470332120200520144314.01-134-00938-01-134-00931-31-282-07748-197866120774871-84392-580-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)99100000000076757320050930d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrime and empire, 1840-1940 criminal justice in local and global context /edited by Barry S. Godfrey, Graeme Dunstall1st ed.Cullompton, Devon, UK ;Portland, Or., USA Willan Pub.20051 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-69683-X 1-84392-108-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ofHistory19th centuryCriminal justice, Administration ofHistory20th centuryColoniesAdministrationHistoryInternational lawHistoryCrimeHistoryCross-cultural studiesGreat BritainColoniesAdministrationHistoryCriminal justice, Administration ofHistoryCriminal justice, Administration ofHistoryColoniesAdministrationHistory.International lawHistory.CrimeHistory364.9/034Godfrey Barry S1114940Dunstall Graeme1670796MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810354703321Crime and Empire 1840 - 19404032874UNINA