Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Foreword 1. Crime and Empire: Introduction 2. The Changes in Policing and Penal Policy in Nineteenth-century Europe 3. Explaining the History of Punishment 4. Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? by Mark Finnane 5. Colonialism and the Rule of Law 6. Colonial History and Theories of the Present: Some Reflections upon Penal History and Theory 7. Crime, the Legal Archive, and Postcolonial Histories 8. Traces and Transmissions: Techno-scientific Symbolism in Early Twentieth-century Policing 9. The English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth-century Tasmania 10. The Growth of Crime and Crime Control in Developing Towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920 11. (Re)presenting Scandal: Charles Reade's Advocacy of Professionalism within the English Prison System 12. 'Saving our Unfortunate Sisters'?: Establishing the First Separate Prison for Women in New Zealand 13. Maori Police Personnel and the Rangitiratanga Discourse 14. 'To Make the Precedent Fit the Crime': British Legal Responses to Sati in Early Nineteenth-century North India 15. 'Everyday Life' in Boer Women's Testimonies of the Concentration Camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 16. Codification of the Criminal Law: The Australasian Parliamentary Experience