Selected Bibliography

 

Patterns of Criminality

Systems of Justice

Popular Justice

Punishment

Theories of Crime

Great Trials

The Underworld

The Working Class

Women and the Law

Heretics

Early Modern Europe:

Johnson, Eric A. & Monkkonen, Eric H. The civilization of crime: violence in town and country since the Middle Ages

Weisser, Michael Crime and punishment in early modern Europe

Jutte, Robert Poverty and deviance in early modern Europe

Gatrell, A.C., Lenman, B. and Parker, G. Crime and the law: the social history of crime in western Europe since 1500

Sharpe, J.A. "Crime and the law: the social history of crime in Western Europe since 1500," Journal of Social History, 1975.

Ruggiero, Guido Violence in early Renaissance Venice

Dean, Trevor Crime, society, and the law in Renaissance Italy

Macfarlane, Alan The justice and the mare's ale: law and disorder in 17th century England

Cockburn, J.S. Crime in England, 1500-1800

Beattie, J.M. "The pattern of crime in England, 1600-1800," Past and Present, 1974.

Beattie, J.M. Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800

Samaha, Joel Law and order in historical perspective: the case of Elizabethan Essex

Thompson, E.P. Whigs and hunters

Manning, Roger B. Hunters and poachers: a social and cultural history of unlawful hunting in England, 1485-1640

*Fielding, Henry An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers

Brewer, J. and Styles, J., eds. An ungovernable people: the English and their law in the 17th and 18th centuries

Emsley, Clive Crime and society in England

McLynn, Frank Crime and punishment in 18th century England

Thompson, E.P., ed. Albion's fatal tree

Zemon Davis, N. "The rites of violence," in Society and Culture in Early Modern France.

Greensheilds, M. An economy of violence in early modern France: crime and justice in the Haute Auvergne, 1587-1664

Ladurie, E. Carnival in Romains (a classic study of popular revelry verging on rebellion)

Farge, A. and J. Revel The vanishing children of Paris

Farge, A. Fragile lives: violence, power, and solidarity in 18th century Paris

Modern Europe:

Goldsmith, Netta The worst of crimes

Johnson, Eric Urbanization and crime

Zehr, Howard Crime and the development of modern society

Zehr, Howard "The modernization of crime in Germany and France, 1830-1913," Journal of Social History, 1975.

Pick, Daniel Faces of degeneration: aspects of European disorder, 1848-1918

Gurr, T.R. Rogues, rebels, and reformers

Gurr, T.R. et al The politics of crime and conflict: a study of four cities

Emsley, Clive Crime and society in England, 1750-1900

Jones, David Crime, protest, community and police in 19th century Britain

Rudé, Georges Criminal and victims: crime and society in early 19th century England

Cockburn, J.S. Crime in England

Wiener, Martin Reconstructing the criminal, 1830-1914: culture, law, and policy in England

Linebaugh, Peter The London hanged: crime and civil soceity in the 18th century

McLynn, F.J. Crime and punishment in Eighteenth-Century England

Robb, George White-Collar crime in modern England: financial fraud and business morality, 1845-1929

Chinn, Carl Poverty amidst prosperity: the urban poor in England, 1834-1914

*Foucault, M., ed. I Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother

*Irving, Henry Studies of French criminals of the 19th century

Willis, Antoinette Crime and punishment in revolutionary Paris

Guillais, Joelle Crimes of passion: dramas of private life in 19th century France

Gillis, John R. "The evolution of juvenile delinquency in England, 1890-1914," Past and Present, 67 (May 1975), 96-126.

Berlanstein, L. "Vagrants, beggars, thieves: delinquent boys in mid 19th century Paris Journal of Social History 12, Summer 1979

Nye, Robert Masculinity and male codes of honor in modern France (section on the duel)

Nye, Robert Crime, madness and politics in modern France: the medical concept of national decline

Martin, Benjamin Crime and criminal justice under the Third Republic: the shame of Marianne

Guarnieri, Patrizia A case of child murder: law and science in 19th century Tuscany

Rusche, G. and O. Kirchheimer Punishment and social structure

Smith, Roger Trial by medicine: the insanity defense in Victorian England

Scull, ed. Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen

Harris, Ruth Murders and madness

Willis, Antoinette Trial by medicine: insanity and responsibility

Peters, Edward Torture

Langbein, John H. Torture and the law of proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Regime

Langbein, John Prosecuting crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, France

Constable, Marianne The law of the other: the mixed jury and changing conceptions of citizenship, law, and knowledge

Fout, John Forbidden history: the state, society, and regulation of sexuality in modern Europe: essays from the Journal of Sexuality

Itkins, Laura The criminal law system of medieval and Renaissance Florence

Edgerton, Samuel Pictures and punishment: art and criminal prosecution during the Florentine Renaissance

Dean, T. and Lowe, K. J. P., eds. Crime, society, and the law in Renaissance Italy

Stern, Laura I. The criminal law system of medieval and Renaissance Florence

Brackett, John Criminal justice and crime in late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609

Ikins, Laura The criminal law system of medieval and Renaissance Florence

Astarita, Tommaso Village justice: community, family, and popular culture in early modern Italy

Hughes, Steven C. Crime, disorder, and the Risorgimento: the politics of policing in Bologna

Netanyahu, Benzion The origins of the Inquisition in 15th century Spain

Monter, William Judging the French Reformation: heresy trials by 16th-century parlements

Reinhardt, Steven G. Justice in the Sarladais, 1770-1790

Shapiro, Barry Revolutionary justice in Paris, 1789-1790

Martin, Benjamin The hypocrisy of justice in the belle époque

Martin, Benjamin Crime and criminal justice under the Third Republic: the shame of Marianne

Taylor, Katherine In the theater of criminal justice: the Palais de justice in Second Empire Paris

O'Brien, Patricia The promise of punishment: prisons in 19th-century France

Wright, Gordon Between the guillotine and liberty

Wharam, Alan The treason trials, 1794

Cobb, Richard The police and protest in Paris

Cameron, I. "The police of 18th century France," European Studies Review, 1977.

Williams, A. The police of Paris, 1717-1789

Cobb, Richard Death in Paris

Payne, Howard C. The police state of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1851-1860

Donovan, James M. "Justice unblind: juries and criminal classes in France, 1825-1914," Journal of Social History, Fall 1981

Briggs, John Crime and punishment in England: an introductory history

Beattie, J.M. Crime and the courts in England, 1660-1800

Bailey, Victor, ed. Policing and punishment in 19th century Britain

Emsley, Clive The English police: a political and social history

Emsley, Clive Crime in England, 1550-1800

Jones, David Crime, protest, community and police in 19th century Britain

McLynn, F.J. Crime and punishment in 18th-century England

Simpson, A.W. In the highest degree odious: dentention without a trial in wartime Britain

Petrow, Stefan Policing morals: the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870-1914

Evans, Richard Rituals of retribution: capital punishment in Germany, 1600-1987

Muller, Ingo Hitler's justice: the courts of the Third Reich

Taylor, Telford The anatomy of the Nuremburg Trials: a personal memoir

Horne, Alistair A savage war of peace: Algeria, 1954-1962

*Alleg, Henri The question: vital revelations of torture in Algeria

Muir, Edward Mad blood stirring: vendetta and factions in Friuli during the Renaissance

Hobsbawm, Eric Bandits

Lefebvre, G. The Great Fear

Farge, A. and J. Revel The vanishing children of Paris

Corbin, Alain The village of cannibals: rage and murder in France, 1870

Barry, David Women and political insurgency: France in the mid-19th century

Davis, Robert The war of the fists: popular culture and public violence in late Renaissance Venice

Sahlins, P. Forest rites

Muir, Edward Mass blood stirring: vendetta and factions in Friuli

Bourke, Angela The burning of Bridget Cleary: a true story

Hoff, Joan and Yeates, Marian The cooper's wife is missing: the trials of Bridget Cleary

Ladurie, Leroy Carnival at Romains

Shapiro, Barry Revolutionary justice in Paris, 1789-90

Rusche, G. and O. Kirchheimer Punishment and social structure

Edgerton, Samuel Images of punishment in the Renaissance

Elkins, James Pictures of the body: pain and metamorphosis

Buranelli, Francesco The Last Judgement: the Restoration

Johston, Norman A history of prison architecture

*Mayhew, Henry The criminal prison of London and scenes of prison life

Forsythe, William J. The reform of prisoners, 1830-1900

O'Brien, Patricia The promise of punishment: prisons in 19th century France

Perrot, Michelle "Delinquency and the penitentiary system in 19th century France," in Deviants and the Abandoned in French Society

*Priestley, Philip Victorian prison lives: English prison biography

*Blanc, Olivier Last letters: prisons and prisoners of the French Revolution

Melossi and Pavarini The prison and the factory: origins of the penitentiary system

Henriques, Ursula "The rise and decline of the separate system of prison discipline," Past and Present 54, Feb. 1972

Tobias, J.J. Nineteenth century crime: prevention and punishment

Ignatieff, Michael A just measure of pain: the penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850

Griffiths, Major Arthur In Spanish prisons: persecution and punishment, 1478-1878

Arasse, D. The guillotine and the Terror

Early Modern Europe

Montesquieu, Charles Persian letters; Spirit of the Laws (Book XI, ch. VI, Bk. VI, Ch.V)

Bentham, Jeremy The principles of morals

Hill, Christopher Liberty against the law: some 17th century controversies

Modern Europe

Mannheim, Hermann Pioneers in criminology

Nye, Robert "Heredity or milieu," Isis, 1976.

*Ellis, Havelock Criminals

*Ellis, Havelock Men and women: a study of human secondary sexual characters

*Lombroso, Cesare Crime: its causes and remedies

*Lombroso, Cesare and Ferrero, G. The female offender

Pollock, Joy and Chesney-Lind, Meda "Early theories of female criminality" in Bowker, L.H., ed. Women, crime, and the criminal justice system

*Ferri, Enrico Criminal sociology

Thomson, Matthew The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain, 1870-1959

Rhead, Louis Robin Hood

Holt, J.C. Robin Hood

Van Kely, D. The Damiens Affair and the unraveling of the Ancien Regime, 1750-90

McLaren, A. A prescription for murder: the Victorian serial killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

Guarnieri, P. A case of child murder: law and science in 19th century Tuscany

Wharam, Alan The treason trials, 1794

Walzer, Michael Regicide and Revolution

Dunn, Susan The deaths of Louis XVI: regicide and the French political imagination

Jordan, David The trial of Louis XVI

Williams, Roger Manners and murders in the world of Louis Napoleon

Shankland, Peter Death of an editor: the Caillaux drama

Berenson, E. The trial of Mme. Caillaux

*Howson, Gerald They take general Jonathan Wild

Knieriem, August The Nuremburg trials

Taylor, Telford Nurbemburg trials

Perisco, Joseph Nuremberg: infamy on trial

Gilbert, G.M. Nuremberg diary

*Trials of war criminals before Nuremburg military tribunals

Lindemann, Albert The Jew accused: three anti-semitic affairs

Bredin, Denis The Dreyfus Affair

Halasz, Nicholas Captain Dreyfus

Fairclough, Melvyn The Ripper and the Royals

Paley, Bruce Jack the Ripper: the simple truth

Sharkey, Terence Jack the Ripper: 100 years of investigation

Harrison, Shirley The diary of Jack the Ripper

Begg, Paul Jack the Ripper: the uncensored facts

Wallace, Richard Jack the Ripper: "Light-hearted friend"

Walkowitz, Judith "Jack the Ripper and the myth of male violence," Feminist Studies, 1982.

Ginzburg, Carlo The judge and the historian: Marginal notes on a late twentieth century miscarriage of justice

McMillan, John The canting crew: London's criminal underworld, 1550-1700

Salgado, Gamini The Elizabethan underworld

*Salgado, Gamini, ed. Cony-catchers and bawdy baskets

Aydelotte, William Elizabethan rogues and vagabonds

Rose, Lionel Rogues and vagabonds in Britain, 1815-1985

Chesney, K. The anti-society: an account of the Victorian underworld

Crowe, David A history of gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia

Egmond, Florike Underworlds: organized crime in the Netherlands, 1650-1800

Fentress, James Rebels and mafiosi: death in a Sicilian landscape

Stille, A. Excellent cadavers (Mafia)

Fontaine, Laurence History of pedlars in Europe

Lodhi & Tilly "Urbanization and crime," American Journal of Sociology, Sept. 1973.

Tomes, Nancy "Crimes of violence between the working class," Journal of Social History, Sept. 1978.

Chevalier, Louis Laboring classes, dangerous classes

Tobias, John Crime and industrial society in the 19th century

McHale, Vincent E. Urbanization, industrialization and crime in Imperial Germany," Social Science History, Fall 1976, Winter 1977.

Hanawalt, Barbara "The female felon in 14th century England," Viator, May 1974.

Hanawalt, Barbara "The peasant family and crime in 14th century England," Journal of British Studies, 1974. Criticism by Hammer, C.I., "Patterns of homocide in 14th century Oxford," Past and Present, 1978.

Hartman, M. "Crime and the respectable woman," Feminist Studies, 1974.

Fout, John Forbidden history: the state, society and regulation of sexuality in Europe

Kuehn, Thomas Law, family & women: toward a legal anthropology of Renaissance Italy

Morris, Allison Women, crime, and criminal justice

Walker, Stefan Policing morals: the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914

Brodsky, Annette, ed. The female offender

*Lombroso, C. The female offender

Kermode, Jennifer and Garthine Walker, eds. Women, crime and the courts in early modern England

Brophy, Julia and Smart, Carol, eds. Women in law: explorations in law, family, and sexuality

Clark, Anna Women's silence, men's violence: sexual assault in England, 1770-1845

Corbin, Alain Women for hire: prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850

McHugh, Paul Prostitution and Victorian social reform

*Acton, William Prostitution: considered in its moral, social and sanitary aspects in London and other large cities 2d ed. 1972

Finnegan, Frances Poverty and prostitution: a study of Victorian prostitutes in York

Mahood, L. The magdalenes: prostitution in the 19th century

Hartman, Mary S. Victorian murderesses: a true history of thirteen respectable French and English women accused of unspeakable crimes

Walkowitz, Judith City of dreadful delights: narratives of sexual danger

Walkowitz, Judith Prostitution and Victorian society

Donzelot, Jacques The policing of families

Shanley, Mary Lyndon Feminism, marriage and the law in Victorian England, 1850-1895

Guillais, Joelle Crimes of passion: dramas of private life in 19th century France

Zedner, L. Women, crime and custody in Victorian England

Kuehn, Thomas Law, family and women

Hoffer, P.C. and Hull, N.E.H. Murdering mothers: infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803

Beattie, J.M. "The criminality of women in 18th century England," Journal of Social History, 1975

Ginzburg, Carlo Ectasies

*Ginzburg, Carlo Night Battles

Kieckhefer, Richard European witch trials: their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300-1500

*Monter, E. William European witchcraft

*Rosen, Barbara, ed. Witchcraft

Levack, B. The witch-hunt in early modern Europe

*Ewen, C.L. Witch hunting and witch trials: the indictments for witchcraft from the records of 1373 assizes

*Douglas, Mary Witchcraft: confessions and accusations

Ankarloo, B. and G. Henningsen, eds. Early modern witchcraft: centres and peripheries

Briggs, Robin Witches & neighbors: the social and cultural context of European witch craft

Behringer, Wolfgang Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria: popular magic, religious zealotry, and reason of state in early modern Europe

Clark, Stuart Thinking with demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe

Barry, David Women and political insurgency: France in the mid-nineteenth century

Breslaw, Elanie G. Witches of the Atlantic World: a historical reader and primary sourcebook

Martin, John Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city

Ginzburg, Carlo The cheese and the worms (on Menocchio, the Italian miller)

Tomizzo, F. Heavenly supper (deals with a case of extraordinary piety)

Kamen, Henry The Spanish Inquisition

Netanyahu, B. The origins of the Inquisition in 15th century Spain

Peters, Eric Inquisition

Santillana, Giorgio de The crime of Galileo

Redondi, Pietro Galileo, heretic

*Finocchiaro, M.A. The Galileo affair: a documentary history

Kertzer, David The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara