History & Crime
A Transdisciplinary Approach
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Revealing the cross utility potential of multiple disciplines to advance knowledge in crime studies, History & Crime showcases new research into crime from across the interdisciplinary perspectives of early modern and modern history, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies.
Authored by emerging and established scholars from the around the world, the contributions span youth crime, feminist criminology, historic penology and court practices, through to the insanity defence, police corruption, and models for post-conflict governance. The chapters present the breadth of the work currently being undertaken around the world in this ground-breaking field, linking the present to the historic.
Through these diverse chapters, the editors illustrate the current scholarship already bridging the oft-asserted divide between history and the social sciences. It is argued that differences in language and methodology may have created a mirage of disciplinary division. The collection consequently offers a unique opportunity for advancing a new framework for trans-disciplinary discourse to allow new research to be more easily interpreted and integrated across traditional disciplinary boundaries. This framework will guide future contributions in everything from histories of crime to future-focused crime scholarship, and by allowing better comprehension, drive ground-breaking new knowledge.
Chapter 1. Making Sense of History and Crime through a Synthesized Framework; Thomas J. Kehoe and Jeffrey E. Pfeifer
- Part I. Historical Research on Crime
- Chapter 2. Killing in Secret: State and Popular Perceptions of Infanticide in Early Modern Europe; Una McIlvenna
- Chapter 3. A Public Claim to Madness: Restoring Context to Forensic Psychiatry in Late-Nineteenth Century Victoria; Georgina Rychner
- Chapter 4. Towards a History of Deviance: Policing Drunkenness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New South Wales; Matthew Allen
- Chapter 5. The Dazed and Dangerous Delinquents of Sin City: Policing and Detaining Juvenile Delinquents in 20th Century Las Vegas; Doris Morgan Rueda
- Chapter 6. Containing the Undesirables: Discretion and the Sentencing of Habitual Criminals in Australian Supreme Courts in the Twentieth Century; Lisa Durnian
- Chapter 7. The History of Forensic Psychology in Australia through a Legal Adjudication Narrative Lens: Cases from the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction; Jeffrey E. Pfeifer
- Part II. Crime Research from a Historical Perspective
- Chapter 8. Historical Criminology as a Field for Interdisciplinary Research and Trans-disciplinary Discourse; Paul Bleakley and Thomas J. Kehoe
- Chapter 9. Status Quotidian: Microhistory and the Study of Crime; Alex Tepperman
- Chapter 10. Breaking down the Blue Wall: Using Historical Criminology to Map Entrenched Networks of Police Corruption; Paul Bleakley
- Chapter 11. Historical Methods in the Critical Study of Drug Policy; Natalie Thomas
- Chapter 12. Making the Case for a Feminist Historical Criminology: Female Homicide Offending in Victoria 1860-1920; Vicky Nagy
- Chapter 13. “Winning Hearts and Minds”: A Historically-Motivated Model for Reactions to Occupation Strategy; Thomas J. Kehoe and Paul Bleakley
- Chapter 14. History, Crime Studies, and the Use of History for Impact-Based Research; Thomas J. Kehoe and Jeffrey E. Pfeifer
Thomas J. Kehoe, PhD is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and the in-house historian at leading public health charity Cancer Council Victoria, Australia.
Jeffrey E. Pfeifer, PhD, M.Leg.St. is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychology at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds a research position with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science.