Crime and culture : an historical perspective / edited by Amy Gilman Srebnick and René Lévy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crime and the construction of historical narrative -- Does the representation fit the crime? : crime history as historical text / Amy Gilman Srebnick -- Discourse and narrative in the history of criminology -- Criminological language and prose from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Peter Becker -- Science and narrative in Italian criminology, 1880-1920 / Mary Gibson -- Robert Heindl's berufsverbrecher : police perceptions of crime and criminals and structures of crime control in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century / Herbert Reinke -- The reconstruction of events in police and criminal justice history -- Narratives of crime, historical interpretation, and the course of human events : the Becker case and American progressivism / Allen Steinberg -- The case of Sergeant Goddard : the story of a rotten apple, or a diseased orchard? / Clive Emsley -- Competing memories : resistance, collaboration, and the purge of the French police after World War II / Jean-Marc Berlière -- Facts and fiction in police illegalisms : the case of controlled deliveries of drugs in France in the early 1990s / René Lévy -- Representations of crimes and criminals -- Private crimes and public executions : discourses on guilt in the arrêts criminels of the eighteenth- century parliament of Paris / Pascal Bastien -- Rebels or bandits? : the representations of the 'peasants' war' in Belgian departments under French rule (1798) / Xavier Rousseaux -- The multiple lives of the Hungarian highwayman / Mónika Mátay and György Csepeli -- From old Cap Collier to Nick Carter : or, images of crime and criminal justice in American dime novel detective stories, 1880-1920 / Wilbur R. Miller.