Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Most...essays in this volume are valuable contributions to the historiography of crime, in particular violent crime, and its relationship to the law.-Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus Universiteit, in Crime, History & Societies vol 14 no 1

• Introduction 1. Popular Violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France 2. The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800 3. Royal Justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile 4. Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden 5. Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man 6. 'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland 7. Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900 8. Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland 9. 'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales Index

Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Most...essays in this volume are valuable contributions to the historiography of crime, in particular violent crime, and its relationship to the law.-Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus Universiteit, in Crime, History & Societies vol 14 no 1

• Introduction 1. Popular Violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France 2. The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800 3. Royal Justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile 4. Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden 5. Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man 6. 'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland 7. Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900 8. Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland 9. 'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales Index

Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Most...essays in this volume are valuable contributions to the historiography of crime, in particular violent crime, and its relationship to the law.-Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus Universiteit, in Crime, History & Societies vol 14 no 1

• Introduction 1. Popular Violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France 2. The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800 3. Royal Justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile 4. Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden 5. Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man 6. 'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland 7. Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900 8. Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland 9. 'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales Index