The Civilization of Crime - Violence in Town and Country since the Middle Ages (Paperback, New)

Along with most of the rest         of Western culture, has crime itself become more "civilized"?         This book exposes as myths the beliefs that society has become more violent         than it has been in the past and that violence is more likely to occur         in cities than in rural areas.       The product of years of study         by scholars from North America and Europe, The Civilization of Crime         shows that, however violent some large cities may be now, both rural and         urban communities in Sweden, Holland, England, and other countries were         far more violent during the late Middle Ages than any cities are today.       Contributors show that the         dramatic change is due, in part, to the fact that violence was often tolerated         or even accepted as a form of dispute settlement in village-dominated         premodern society. Interpersonal violence declined in the seventeenth         and eighteenth centuries, as dispute resolution was taken over by courts         and other state institutions and the church became increasingly intolerant         of it.       The book also challenges a         number of other historical-sociological theories, among them that contemporary         organized crime is new, and addresses continuing debate about the meaning         and usefulness of crime statistics.       CONTRIBUTORS: Esther Cohen,         Herman Diederiks, Florike Egmond, Eric A. Johnson, Michele Mancino, Eric         H. Monkkonen, Eva Österberg, James A. Sharpe, Pieter Spierenburg,         Jan Sundin, Barbara Weinberger  

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	August 1996
Editors:	Eric A. Johnson • Eric H. Monkkonen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06546-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-252-06546-8
Barcode:	9780252065460

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