Kalifa (Dominique), Crime et Culture au XIXe siècle

Dominique Kalifa, the renowned expert on crime in its social, cultural, and political context, casts a fresh analytical glance at the popular obsession with crime in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Written in elegant and at times extremely entertaining prose, Kalifa takes the reader...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Autor principal: Becker, Peter
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2013
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Dominique Kalifa, the renowned expert on crime in its social, cultural, and political context, casts a fresh analytical glance at the popular obsession with crime in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Written in elegant and at times extremely entertaining prose, Kalifa takes the reader into the dark streets of Paris and inside the prisons to an exotic social milieu. He also allows the reader to peer over the shoulders of pen-wielding police practitioners, as well as judges in th...