Future Agendas for Research on Violent Crime: The Challenge to History from Evolutionary Psychology

Recent decades have seen a tremendous growth in knowledge about the history of crime, criminal justice, policing, and punishment in the early modern and modern periods, particularly with regard to Europe and North America. Amid this expansive array of research interests in what I will, for simplici...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Prif Awdur: Wood, John Carter
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2018
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:Recent decades have seen a tremendous growth in knowledge about the history of crime, criminal justice, policing, and punishment in the early modern and modern periods, particularly with regard to Europe and North America. Amid this expansive array of research interests in what I will, for simplicity, call “crime history”, violence has attracted particular attention. Using social-science and cultural-theoretical methods, historians have generated a vast amount of quantitative data on violent...