In Crime and Modernity, John Lea develops a broad historical and sociological overview relating the rise and fall of effective crime control to different types

′Lea has produced a serious and scholarly contribution of great interest to criminologists (whether "critical "or not), to post graduates, as well as the more

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and to the intell

Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American

With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multipl