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Contents List of Contributors vii Introduction xi PART I: CRIME AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 1. Does the Representation Fit the Crime? Crime History as Historical Text Amy Gilman Srebnick 3 PART II: DISCOURSE AND NARRATIVE IN THE HISTORY OF CRIMINOLOGY 2. Criminological Language and Prose from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Peter Becker 23 3. Science and Narrative in Italian Criminology, 1880-1920 Mary Gibson 37 4. 'Robert Heindl's Berufsverbrecher:' Police Perceptions of Crime and Criminals and Structures of Crime Control in Germany during the First Half of the Twentieth20th Century Herbert Reinke 49 PART III: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EVENTS IN POLICE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE HISTORY 5. Narratives of Crime, Historical Interpretation and the Course of Human Events: The Becker Case and American Progressivism Allen Steinberg 63 6. The Case of Sergeant Goddard: The Story of a Rotten Apple, or a Diseased Orchard? Clive Emsley 85 7. Competing Memories: Resistance, Collaboration and the Purge of the French Police after World War II Jean-Marc Berlière 105 8. Facts and Fiction in Police Illegalisms: The Case of Controlled Deliveries of Drugs in France in the Early 1990s René Lévy 121 PART IV: REPRESENTATIONS OF CRIMES AND CRIMINALS 9. Private Crimes and Public Executions: Discourses on Guilt in the Arrêts Criminels of the Eighteenth- Century Parliament of Paris Pascal Bastien 141 10. Rebels or Bandits? The Representations of the 'Peasants' War' in Belgian Departments under French Rule (1798) Xavier Rousseaux 163 11. The Multiple Lives of the Hungarian Highwayman Mónika M tay and György Csepeli 183 12. From Old Cap Collier to Nick Carter; Or, Images of Crime and Criminal Justice in American Dime Novel Detective Stories, 1880-1920 Wilbur R. Miller 199 Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Crime in literature.
Criminology.