Clive Emsley was Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987), The English Police: A Political and Social History (1991) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999).Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. She is the author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (2017). She has co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History.

Drawing on perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy, and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in crime and justice against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts from 500 BCE to the present.

• Volume 1: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in Antiquity Edited by Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, USAVolume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age Edited by Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAVolume 3: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance Edited by Laura Stokes and Michael Menna, both Stanford University, USAVolume 4: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by Xavier Rousseaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumVolume 5: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of EmpireEdited by Mark Finnane, Griffith University, AustraliaVolume 6: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age Edited by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK

Clive Emsley was Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987), The English Police: A Political and Social History (1991) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999).Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. She is the author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (2017). She has co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History.

Drawing on perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy, and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in crime and justice against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts from 500 BCE to the present.

• Volume 1: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in Antiquity Edited by Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, USAVolume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age Edited by Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAVolume 3: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance Edited by Laura Stokes and Michael Menna, both Stanford University, USAVolume 4: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by Xavier Rousseaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumVolume 5: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of EmpireEdited by Mark Finnane, Griffith University, AustraliaVolume 6: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age Edited by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK

Clive Emsley was Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987), The English Police: A Political and Social History (1991) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999).Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. She is the author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (2017). She has co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History.

Drawing on perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy, and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in crime and justice against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts from 500 BCE to the present.

• Volume 1: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in Antiquity Edited by Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, USAVolume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age Edited by Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAVolume 3: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance Edited by Laura Stokes and Michael Menna, both Stanford University, USAVolume 4: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by Xavier Rousseaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumVolume 5: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of EmpireEdited by Mark Finnane, Griffith University, AustraliaVolume 6: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age Edited by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK