Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment [Hardcover]

Modern Histories of Crime and Punishmentshowcases a variety of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches that, taken together, frame historical analysis in the study and teaching of criminal law. Featuring work by historians, lawyers, theorists, and sociologists, Modern Histories approaches the history of crime and punishment not as the freestanding study of a distinct institution or body of legal doctrine, but as part of a broader inquiry into the webs of governance and control that constitute social and political life.This is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law. This collection of highly original works explores the construction of criminal law discourse and its problematic relationship to the enterprise of state punishment. There are many scholars whose work intersects with this volume, but no other published collection on the history of substantive criminal law offers anything like the range and coherence put forth here. Modern Histories of Crime and Punishmentinvolves an original and interdisciplinary approach to the area of criminal law. This is an exceptional book. Intricacy and depth of scholarship... characterize the chapters.Modern Histories of Crime and Punishmenthas been a bracing intellectual excursion, and... I found each of the articles to range from interesting to fascinating. Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY Buffalo School of Law. His books includeThe Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government(2005),The Sense of Justice: Empathy in Law and Punishment(2006), andThe New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance(coedited with M. Valverde; Stanford, 2006).Lindsay Farmer is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and author ofCriminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order(1997), andThe Trial on Trial(3 vols.)l3&