Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940

This 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. Chapters in the book present a variety of approaches, ranging from global discussions of key issues and developments to an exploration of local case studies and their relationship to these broader themes. Overall they reflect thinking and developments within criminological, historiographical and post-colonial approaches. Crime and Empire 1840-1940 reflects a growing interest in the history of criminal justice on the part of both criminologists and historians. The legacy of colonialism continues to be disputed in the courts and elsewhere. The contributors to this book are concerned le

Foreword by Carolyn Strange 1. Crime and Empire: Introduction byGraeme Dunstall and Barry S. Godfrey 2. The Changes in Policing and Penal Policy in Nineteenth-century Europe byClive Emsley 3. Explaining the History of Punishment byJohn Pratt 4. Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? by Mark Finnane 5. Colonialism and the Rule of Law byJulie Evans 6. Colonial History and Theories of the Present: Some Reflections upon Penal History and Theory byMark Brown 7. Crime, the Legal Archive, and Postcolonial Histories byCathy Colborne 8. Traces and Transmissions: Techno-scientific Symbolism in Early Twentieth-century Policing byDean Wilson 9. The English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth-century Tasmania byStefan Petrow 10. The Growth of Crime and Crime Control in Developing Towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920 byBarry Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall 11. (Re)presenting Scandal: Charles Reade's Advocacy of Professionalism within the English Prison System bySarah Anderson 12. 'Saving our Unfortunate Sisters'?: Establishing the First Separate Prison for Women in New Zealand byAnna McKenzie 13. Maori Police Personnel and the Rangitiratanga Discourse byRichard Hill 14. 'To Make the Precedent Fit the Crime': British Legal Responses to Sati in Early Nineteenth-century North India byJane Buckingham 15. 'Everyday Life' in Boer Women's Testimonies of the Concentration Camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 byHelen Dampier 16. Codification of the Criminal Law: The Australasian Parliamentary Experience byJeremy Finn

Barry Godfrey is Professor of Criminology at Keele University, UK. Graeme Dunstall is a Lecturere in History at Canterbury University, New Zealand.