Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance 1
6. Chapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century 22
7. Chapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic 49
8. Chapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology 97
9. Chapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis 132
10. Chapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century 171
11. Chapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense 227
12. Chapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies 265
13. Chapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival 310
14. Chapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany 330
15. Bibliography 341
16. Index 361
17. Backmatter 368