NCJ Number
154040
Editor(s)
P Beirne
Date Published
1994
Length
401 pages
Annotation
The essays contained in this volume are designed to make more readily accessible disparate material on the intellectual history of criminology.
Abstract
The four essays in the first section of the book reconsider the merits of the key text in the development of classical criminology, Cesare Beccaria's 1764 treatise, "Of Crimes and Punishments." The five essays in the second part deal with the rise of positivist discourses about crime, discourses that situate crime in relation to the body, the social, and the mind. The contributions in the final section of the book discuss issues related to the growth of criminology in the U.S. between 1880 and 1945, including feminism, methodological debates in criminology, and the input into criminology of sociological research.