An eye for an eye: a global history of crime and punishment

Introduction

Crime and punishment: in the beginning

Rise of legal traditions

Crime in a changing landscape: from feudalism to the city and the state

Transformation of punishment and the rise of the penitentiary

Highwaymen, bandits, brigands and bush rangers: bands of thieves and early organized criminality

Prohibitions, pirates, slave traders, drug smugglers and the internationalization of criminality

Face of modern murder

Crime and punishment in a post-colonial world

Crime and punishment in the twenty-first century

Reference

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Acknowledgments

Index.