Problems of crime and violence in Europe, 1780-2000 : essays in criminal justice / edited by Efi Avdela, Shani D'Cruze, Judith Rowbotham ; with a foreword by Jeffrey S. Adler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : De-centring violence history / Efi Avdela, Shani D'Cruze, Judith Rowbotham -- A legacy of conflict? : the 'brutalised veteran' and violence in Europe after the Great War / Clive Emsley -- When 'men of honour' met 'men of law' : ritualised violence, the unwritten law and modern criminal justice / Thomas Gallant -- The Christian Orthodox family in crisis : the Ecumenical Patriarchate's courts and the reconstruction of the private sphere in southeast Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dimitris Stamatopoulos -- Network technologies : the implementation of new identification technologies at the turn of the century / Peter Becker -- Interactions between citizens, government and justice : norms, practices and values of the liberal judicial model during the late French Revolution (1795-1801) / Emmanuel Berger -- Women and banditry in Provence after the French Revolution / Karine Lambert -- Powerful subjects in the margins of the state / Urania Astrinaki -- 'The most troublesome woman in Crewe' : investigating gender, sentencing and the late Victorian English lower courts / Shani D'Cruze, Barry Godfrey and David Cox -- Making sense of 'hideous crimes' : homicide and the cultural reordering of gendered sociality in Post-Civil-War Greece / Efi Avdela -- Who is the 'rapist'? : crimes of sexual violence and theories of evolution / Joanna Bourke.

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This work makes available historical and anthropological research on a region comparatively little known to the English-language academic readership interested in the lively field of crime and violence history. The volume challenges the largely evolutionary current conceptualizations (in terms of both chronology and geography) which shape much of the history of European crime and interpersonal violence.

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