Criminal Justice History

LOUIS A. KNAFLA is Professor of History, University of Calgary. In addition to his numerous books on the history of crime and criminal justice, Knafla has served as head of the Board of Editors of Criminal Justice History since its inception.

• Preface; "Coram Domino Comite et suis Iudicibus": Penal Procedures in Early Fourteenth-Century Dubrovnik by Nella Lonza Policing Piedmont: The "Well Ordered" Italian Police State in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1821 by Michael Broers Combatting the Sexual Abuse of Children in France, 1825-1913 by James M. Donovan The Constabulary and the Criminal Justice System in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Ian Bridgeman Anti-Irish Violence in Victorian England: Some Perspectives by Roger Swift Minorities Policing Minorities as a Strategy of Social Control: A Historical Analysis of Tribal Police in the United States by David E. Barlow The Technology of Professionalism: The Identification of Criminals in Early Twentieth-Century Canada by Greg Marquis War, Delinquency, and Society in Bordeaux, 1914-1918 by Philippe Chassaigne Authority, Control, and Class Justice: The Role of the Sondergerichte in the Transition from Weimar Germany to the Third Reich by Anthony McElligott The Decline of Women in the Criminal Process: A Comparative History by Malcolm Feeley Book Review Essay The Postmodern Prostitute: A Thematic Review of Recent Research by Augustine Brannigan Book Reviews John K. Brackett, Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 by Xavier Rousseau Lincoln B. Faller, Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing by W. R. Owens Adam J. Hirsch, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America by Victor Bailey Jean-Claude Farcy, Guide des Archives Judicaires et Penitentiares, 1800-1958 and E. M. Palmegiano, Crimes in Victorian Britain: An Annotated Bibliography from Nineteenth-Century British Magazines by Clive Emsley Paula J. Byrne, Criminal Law and the Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810-1830 by Stephen Garton David Walker with Stephen Garton and Julia Horne (eds.), Crimes and Trials, Australian Cultural History by Mark Finnane John McLaren, Hamar Foster, and Chet Orloff (eds.), Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West by Greg Marquis Maeve E. Doggett, Marriage, Wife-Beating, and the Law in Victorian England and Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London by Krista Cowman P. Moczydlowski, The Hidden Life of Polish Prisons by Paul G. Lewis Clive Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History by David Philips Gerry R. Rubin, Durban 1942: A British Troopship Revolt by David Englander Greg Marquis, Policing Canada's Century: A History of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police by Keith Edgerton and Jonathan Swainger Terrence Sullivan, Sexual Abuse and the Rights of Children: Reforming Canadian Law by Joseph P. Hornick Katy J. Harriger, Independent Justice: The Federal Special Prosecutor in American Politics by Michal R. Belknap Index