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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany
Crime, Sin and Salvation
Av Kathy Stuart
Inbunden, 2023
624 kr
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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape …
Policing New Risks in Modern European History
Av Xavier Rousseaux, Jonas Campion
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and …
History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy
Inbunden, 2016
960 kr
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This book illuminates the neglected history of the Dublin Metropolitan Police – a history that has been long overshadowed by existing historiography, which has traditionally been preoccupied with the more radical aspects of Irish history. It explores the origins of the institution and highlights …
History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy
Häftad, 2019
680 kr
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This book illuminates the neglected history of the Dublin Metropolitan Police – a history that has been long overshadowed by existing historiography, which has traditionally been preoccupied with the more radical aspects of Irish history. It explores the origins of the institution and highlights …
Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History
(De)Constructing Family and Authority?
Av Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo
Inbunden, 2017
1240 kr
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This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are …
Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History
(De)Constructing Family and Authority?
Av Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo
Häftad, 2018
1240 kr
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This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are …
Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
Av Mia Korpiola
Häftad, 2019
1352 kr
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This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal knowledge and skills, how they used these in advocacy and legal writing and how legal literacy became …
Bloody Code in England and Wales, 1760–1830
Av John Walliss
Häftad, 2018
680 kr
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This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was …
Suicide, Law, and Community in Early Modern Sweden
Inbunden, 2019
1016 kr
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This book explores the judicial treatment of suicides in early modern Sweden, with a focus on the criminal investigation and selective treatment of suicides in the lower courts in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Riikka Miettinen shows that reactions and attitudes towards suicides …
European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War
Av Jonas Campion, Laurent López m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1352 kr
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This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in …
European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War
Av Jonas Campion, Laurent López m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
1352 kr
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This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in …
Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s–1980s
Rape and Child Sexual Abuse
Inbunden, 2021
1352 kr
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This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change. Driven by the sexual revolutions, second wave feminism, and ideas of the rights of the child, there was a new public interest in the sexual assault of women and children. …
Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s–1980s
Rape and Child Sexual Abuse
Häftad, 2022
1352 kr
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This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change. Driven by the sexual revolutions, second wave feminism, and ideas of the rights of the child, there was a new public interest in the sexual assault of women and children. …
Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48
Reshaping the Nation
Av Ota Konrád, Boris Barth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1688 kr
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This book analyses the process of ‘reshaping’ liberated societies in post-1945 Europe. Post-war societies tried to solve three main questions immediately after the dark times of occupation: Who could be considered a patriot and a valuable member of the respective national community? How could …
Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48
Reshaping the Nation
Av Ota Konrád, Boris Barth m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1688 kr
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This book analyses the process of ‘reshaping’ liberated societies in post-1945 Europe. Post-war societies tried to solve three main questions immediately after the dark times of occupation: Who could be considered a patriot and a valuable member of the respective national community? How could …
Histories of Legal Aid
A Comparative and International Perspective
Av Felice Batlan, Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Inbunden, 2022
1576 kr
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This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to …
Histories of Legal Aid
A Comparative and International Perspective
Av Felice Batlan, Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Häftad, 2023
1576 kr
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This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to …
Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany
Crime, Sin and Salvation
Av Kathy Stuart
Häftad, 2024
624 kr
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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape …
Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975
Inbunden, 2023
568 kr
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This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol. A relatively rare form of assault, it was motivated largely by revenge or jealousy and, because it was …
Acid Attacks in Britain, 1760–1975
Häftad, 2024
568 kr
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This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol. A relatively rare form of assault, it was motivated largely by revenge or jealousy and, because it was …
Paramilitarism and European Society in the 1940s
Regimes of Violence
Av Gareth Pritchard, Vesna Drapac
Inbunden, 2025
1576 kr
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This book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s. Paramilitarism had an impact on the lives of millions of Europeans, yet knowledge about this important topic is partial and fragmented.The general perception of European paramilitary …
Paramilitarism and European Society in the 1940s
Regimes of Violence
Av Gareth Pritchard, Vesna Drapac
Häftad, 2026
1576 kr
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This book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s. Paramilitarism had an impact on the lives of millions of Europeans, yet knowledge about this important topic is partial and fragmented.The general perception of European paramilitary …
Colonial Prison in Bengal, 1860-1945
History, Governmentality, and Colonial Experiences in Literary Writings
Av Animesh Bag
Inbunden, 2025
1557 kr
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This book presents alternative histories of the colonial prison in Bengal, 1860-1945, focusing on the experiences of the colonised subject as produced in literary writings including fiction, dramas, and life writings. The colonial prison, as defined by penal acts, jail codes, jail manuals, …
Patterns of Violence Behind the Lines in Europe’s Civil Wars
Av Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira, John Sakkas
Inbunden, 2025
1576 kr
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This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The determinants of violence in civil wars are highly complex and variable. By focusing on both the victims and perpetrators of …
Steilneset Memorial and Feminicide
Av Liv Helene Willumsen, Reidun Laura Andreassen
Inbunden, 2027
1795 kr
Kommande
This book brings together contributions from female authors on feminicide and violence against women. Steilneset Memorial in Finnmark, Norway was built by Norwegian Scenic Routes to commemorate the victims of the Finnmark witchcraft trials in the seventeenth century. The memorial was opened in …
Violence Against Women in Eastern Europe
History, Law and Legacy
Av Marianna Muravyeva, Sigita Černevičiūtė m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1464 kr
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This book offers a pioneering, interdisciplinary analysis of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Through case studies of various Eastern European countries, the volume examines how empire, war, nationalism, socialism, and post-socialist …
Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700
Inbunden, 2017
1240 kr
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This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay …
Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956
Inbunden, 2017
1108 kr
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This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan’s contradictory roles in the …
Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations
From the Archive to the Grave
Inbunden, 2017
1016 kr
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This book reflects on the new histories emerging from the exhumation of mass graves that contain the corpses of the Republicans killed in extrajudicial executions during and after the conflict, nearly eighty years after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In the search for, location and …
Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950
From Punishment to Welfare
Av Jean Trépanier, Xavier Rousseaux
Inbunden, 2018
1576 kr
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This book explores the treatment of junevile offenders in modern Western history. The last few decades have witnessed major debates over youth justice policies. Juvenile and youth justice legislation has been reviewed in a number of countries. Despite the fact that new perspectives, such as …
