In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the
production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in
nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of
deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how
the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in
the establishment of such key institutions as national systems of
education, a cheap daily press, and various welfare measures
designed to fight the spread of criminality. Leps focuses on three
discursive practices: the emergence of criminology, the development
of a mass-produced press, and the proliferation of crime fiction,
in both England and France. Beginning where Foucault's work
Discipline and Punish ends, Leps analyzes intertextual modes of
knowledge production and shows how the elaboration of hegemonic
truths about the criminal is related to the exercise of power. The
scope of her investigation includes scientific treatises such as
Criminal Man by Cesare Lombroso and The English Convict by Charles
Goring, reports on the Jack the Ripper murders in The Times and Le
Petit Parisien, the Sherlock Holmes stories, Stevenson's Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and novels by Zola and Bourget.
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