An Eye for an Eye: a Global History of Crime and Punishment

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Cover; An Eye For An Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Crime and Punishment: In the Beginning; 2. The Rise of Legal Traditions; 3. Crime in a Changing Landscape: From Feudalism to the City and the State; 4. The Transformation of Punishment and the Rise of the Penitentiary; 5. Highwaymen, Bandits, Brigands and Bushrangers: Bands of Thieves and Early Organized Criminality; 6. Prohibitions, Pirates, Slave Traders, Drug Smugglers and the Internationalization of Criminality; 7. The Face of Modern Murder.8. Crime and Punishment in a Post-colonial World9. Crime and Punishment in the Twenty-first Century; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.From "an eye for an eye" to debates over capital punishment, humanity has a long and controversial relationship with doling out justice for criminal acts. Today, crime and punishment remain significant parts of our culture, but societies vary greatly on what is considered criminal and how it should be punished. In this global survey of crime and punishment throughout history, Mitchel P. Roth examines how and why we penalize certain activities, and he scrutinizes the effectiveness of such efforts in both punishing wrongdoers and bringing a sense of justice to victims. Drawing on anthr.