The Invention of International Crime: A Global Issue in the Making, 1881-1914

by P. Knepper

Overview

We live in the age of international crime but whendid it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914),exploring issues such as'world-shrinking' changes in transportation, communication and commerce, and concerns about alien criminality, white slave trading and anarchist outrages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230238183
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/29/2009
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

PAUL KNEPPER is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Criminology, University of Malta.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction Technology Empire Alien Criminality White Slavery Anarchist Outrages The Criminologists Index

Editorial Reviews

"simply excellent" - Theoretical Criminology

"Recommended" - Choice

'Knepper's book makes a useful addition to studies of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain in particular and is also likely to prove valuable for those interested in the history of criminology. One of the most interesting aspects of this book lies in its demonstration of the continuity of ideas and prejudices from the late Victorian period to the present. Much twenty-first-century discourse about international crime uses concepts which emerged in the decades leading up to the outbreak of the First World War' - History

'This book provides a compelling account of the constructions of popular and scientific conceptions of criminality in a defining moment in the history of industrial modernity. It will not only be of interest to scholars in criminology, but also to historical sociologists and others interested in the early history of the modern global order of nation states.'

- Contemporary Sociology

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