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16 février 2009
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Clive Emsley, « Crime and Punishment: 10 years of research (1) », Crime, Histoire & Sociétés, ID : 10.4000/chs.387
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Thirty years ago the history of crime, criminal justice, penal policy and penal institutions in Britain was a subject scarcely explored by academics. Such work as had been done was generally informed by a Whiggish perspective. It saw legal, police and prison developments as following a generally enlightened, humanitarian and progressive trajectory. It understood criminals from an essentially positivist perspective. The laws, the courts, the police, the prisons were there to protect ordinary p...