Crime and City in History
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Margo de Koster
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This peer-reviewed book series aims to contribute to our knowledge of crime and crime control in cities throughout history. As urbanization increases and the importance of cities across the world continues to grow, scholars are being challenged to explain and solve problems of urban crime, safety, and policing. Nevertheless, urban crime and disorder are not new phenomena: profound urban change has always brought about important problems and fears and spurred attempts of city authorities to maintain order and control urban space. Historical study of crime and the city may therefore provide insight into patterns of crime and disorder and help us understand how the urban population, local authorities, and media respond to conflict, violence, and law-breaking across urban space and time.
Crime and criminal justice are inextricably linked to urbanization, poverty, unemployment, social services, and inequality among and between urban populations. However, there is still a gap in studies that link crime and crime control to the specific socioeconomic fabric of a city and to the particular organization and uses of urban space. As such, a better understanding of the intersection of gender, social class, and migrant status in urban justice is needed. In addition, more global and comparative approaches to the study of urban crime should be explored, as there is a lack of research that looks at crime and social control in colonial cities and cities outside Europe in general.
The main objective of this exciting series is to fill in these gaps in academic publishing on crime in the urban context. The series provides a venue for scholarly work that advances our understanding of the history of crime and crime control in urban settings in all time periods and geographical regions.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to either the series editors or the publisher at BRILL, Alessandra Giliberto.
Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at openacess@brill.com.
Crime and criminal justice are inextricably linked to urbanization, poverty, unemployment, social services, and inequality among and between urban populations. However, there is still a gap in studies that link crime and crime control to the specific socioeconomic fabric of a city and to the particular organization and uses of urban space. As such, a better understanding of the intersection of gender, social class, and migrant status in urban justice is needed. In addition, more global and comparative approaches to the study of urban crime should be explored, as there is a lack of research that looks at crime and social control in colonial cities and cities outside Europe in general.
The main objective of this exciting series is to fill in these gaps in academic publishing on crime in the urban context. The series provides a venue for scholarly work that advances our understanding of the history of crime and crime control in urban settings in all time periods and geographical regions.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to either the series editors or the publisher at BRILL, Alessandra Giliberto.
Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at openacess@brill.com.
Volume 6
978-90-04-68617-5
A Comparative Perspective on Crime and Gender Before the Dutch Criminal Courts, c.1600–1810
Volume 4
978-90-04-42491-3
Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Volume 2
978-90-04-41693-2
Series Editors:
Manon van der Heijden, Leiden University
Margo de Koster, Ghent University and VU Amsterdam
Manon van der Heijden, Leiden University
Margo de Koster, Ghent University and VU Amsterdam