Amy Gilman Srebnick is Doctor and Professor of History at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. Dr Rene Levy is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

'...these scholars attain a deeper understanding of the place of crime and criminal justice in Western politics and culture. A landmark in the development of a more sophisticated history of crime.' Martin Wiener, Rice University, USA '...a book with a wonderful range of contributors, countries and eras. Srebnick's introduction is invaluable...The studies which follow are so varied in style and story as to keep any reader eager for more.' Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA '...new and fascinating approaches to narratives about crime...a fine lesson in historical scepticism, this important book breathes fresh air into the mystery of memory and provides a large fund of marvellous stories about bandits or highwaymen turned into mythical heroes by popular, local, or even national narratives.' Robert Muchembled, University of Paris-Nord, France '...Srebnick's and Lévy's contributors offer new approaches to understanding the meaning of crime in modern Western culture and conclude that there are important continuities in the history of crime and its representations in modern culture, despite particularities of time and place.' Law and Social Inquiry 'The reader expects me to write nothing but a positive review of this collection, which has several long-time colleagues among its contributors. Lluckily, I don't have to be insincere. Indeed, something would be substantially wrong with the field of crime history if a number of its principal practitioners produced a bad book together.' Crime, Histoire et Sociétés

• Contents: Crime And The Construction Of Historical Narrative: Does the representation fit the crime?: Some thoughts on writing crime history as cultural text, Amy Gilman Srebnick. Discourse And Narrative In The History Of Criminology: Criminological language and prose from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Peter Becker; Science and narrative in Italian criminology, 1880-1920, Mary Gibson; 'Robert Heindl's Berufsverbrecher:' Police perceptions of crime and criminals and structures of crime control in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, Herbert Reinke. The Reconstruction Of Events In Police and Criminal Justice History: Narratives of crime, historical interpretation and the course of human events: The Becker case and American progressivism, Allen Steinberg; Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple, or a diseased orchard?, Clive Emsley; Competing memories: resistance, collaboration and the purge of the French police after World War II, Jean-Marc Berlière; Facts and fiction in police illegalisms: the case of controlled deliveries of drugs in France in the early 1990s, René Lévy. Representations Of Crimes And Criminals: Private crimes and public executions: discourses on guilt in the Arrêts Criminels of the eighteenth-century parliament of Paris, Pascal Bastien; Rebels or bandits? The representations of the 'Peasants' War' in Belgian departments under French rule (1798), Xavier Rousseaux; The multiple lives of the Hungarian highwayman, Mónika Mátay and György Csepeli; From Old Cap Collier to Nick Carter: Or, images of crime and criminal justice in American dime novel detective stories 1880-1920, Wilbur R. Miller; Index.

Amy Gilman Srebnick is Doctor and Professor of History at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. Dr Rene Levy is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

'...these scholars attain a deeper understanding of the place of crime and criminal justice in Western politics and culture. A landmark in the development of a more sophisticated history of crime.' Martin Wiener, Rice University, USA '...a book with a wonderful range of contributors, countries and eras. Srebnick's introduction is invaluable...The studies which follow are so varied in style and story as to keep any reader eager for more.' Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA '...new and fascinating approaches to narratives about crime...a fine lesson in historical scepticism, this important book breathes fresh air into the mystery of memory and provides a large fund of marvellous stories about bandits or highwaymen turned into mythical heroes by popular, local, or even national narratives.' Robert Muchembled, University of Paris-Nord, France '...Srebnick's and Lévy's contributors offer new approaches to understanding the meaning of crime in modern Western culture and conclude that there are important continuities in the history of crime and its representations in modern culture, despite particularities of time and place.' Law and Social Inquiry 'The reader expects me to write nothing but a positive review of this collection, which has several long-time colleagues among its contributors. Lluckily, I don't have to be insincere. Indeed, something would be substantially wrong with the field of crime history if a number of its principal practitioners produced a bad book together.' Crime, Histoire et Sociétés

• Contents: Crime And The Construction Of Historical Narrative: Does the representation fit the crime?: Some thoughts on writing crime history as cultural text, Amy Gilman Srebnick. Discourse And Narrative In The History Of Criminology: Criminological language and prose from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Peter Becker; Science and narrative in Italian criminology, 1880-1920, Mary Gibson; 'Robert Heindl's Berufsverbrecher:' Police perceptions of crime and criminals and structures of crime control in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, Herbert Reinke. The Reconstruction Of Events In Police and Criminal Justice History: Narratives of crime, historical interpretation and the course of human events: The Becker case and American progressivism, Allen Steinberg; Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple, or a diseased orchard?, Clive Emsley; Competing memories: resistance, collaboration and the purge of the French police after World War II, Jean-Marc Berlière; Facts and fiction in police illegalisms: the case of controlled deliveries of drugs in France in the early 1990s, René Lévy. Representations Of Crimes And Criminals: Private crimes and public executions: discourses on guilt in the Arrêts Criminels of the eighteenth-century parliament of Paris, Pascal Bastien; Rebels or bandits? The representations of the 'Peasants' War' in Belgian departments under French rule (1798), Xavier Rousseaux; The multiple lives of the Hungarian highwayman, Mónika Mátay and György Csepeli; From Old Cap Collier to Nick Carter: Or, images of crime and criminal justice in American dime novel detective stories 1880-1920, Wilbur R. Miller; Index.

Amy Gilman Srebnick is Doctor and Professor of History at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. Dr Rene Levy is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

'...these scholars attain a deeper understanding of the place of crime and criminal justice in Western politics and culture. A landmark in the development of a more sophisticated history of crime.' Martin Wiener, Rice University, USA '...a book with a wonderful range of contributors, countries and eras. Srebnick's introduction is invaluable...The studies which follow are so varied in style and story as to keep any reader eager for more.' Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA '...new and fascinating approaches to narratives about crime...a fine lesson in historical scepticism, this important book breathes fresh air into the mystery of memory and provides a large fund of marvellous stories about bandits or highwaymen turned into mythical heroes by popular, local, or even national narratives.' Robert Muchembled, University of Paris-Nord, France '...Srebnick's and Lévy's contributors offer new approaches to understanding the meaning of crime in modern Western culture and conclude that there are important continuities in the history of crime and its representations in modern culture, despite particularities of time and place.' Law and Social Inquiry 'The reader expects me to write nothing but a positive review of this collection, which has several long-time colleagues among its contributors. Lluckily, I don't have to be insincere. Indeed, something would be substantially wrong with the field of crime history if a number of its principal practitioners produced a bad book together.' Crime, Histoire et Sociétés

• Contents: Crime And The Construction Of Historical Narrative: Does the representation fit the crime?: Some thoughts on writing crime history as cultural text, Amy Gilman Srebnick. Discourse And Narrative In The History Of Criminology: Criminological language and prose from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Peter Becker; Science and narrative in Italian criminology, 1880-1920, Mary Gibson; 'Robert Heindl's Berufsverbrecher:' Police perceptions of crime and criminals and structures of crime control in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, Herbert Reinke. The Reconstruction Of Events In Police and Criminal Justice History: Narratives of crime, historical interpretation and the course of human events: The Becker case and American progressivism, Allen Steinberg; Sergeant Goddard: the story of a rotten apple, or a diseased orchard?, Clive Emsley; Competing memories: resistance, collaboration and the purge of the French police after World War II, Jean-Marc Berlière; Facts and fiction in police illegalisms: the case of controlled deliveries of drugs in France in the early 1990s, René Lévy. Representations Of Crimes And Criminals: Private crimes and public executions: discourses on guilt in the Arrêts Criminels of the eighteenth-century parliament of Paris, Pascal Bastien; Rebels or bandits? The representations of the 'Peasants' War' in Belgian departments under French rule (1798), Xavier Rousseaux; The multiple lives of the Hungarian highwayman, Mónika Mátay and György Csepeli; From Old Cap Collier to Nick Carter: Or, images of crime and criminal justice in American dime novel detective stories 1880-1920, Wilbur R. Miller; Index.