An eye for an eye : a global history of crime and punishment / Michael P. Roth.

Author: Roth, Michael P. 1953-

Imprint:London : Reaktion Books Ltd., c2014.

Description342 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Crime and punishment : in the beginning -- The rise of legal traditions -- Crime in a changing landscape : from feudalism to the city and the state -- The transformation of punishment and the rise of the penitentiary -- Highwaymen, bandits, brigands and bushrangers : bands of thieves and early organized criminality -- Prohibitions, pirates, slave traders, drug smugglers and the internationalization of criminality -- The face of modern murder -- Crime and punishment in a post-colonial world -- Crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index..

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