Shame, Blame, and Culpability: Crime and Violence in the Modern State

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on contributors Preface: Towards a history of shaming and blaming Acknowledgements Introduction PART I Theorising shame 1 Vergüenza, vergogne, schande, skam and sram: litigating for shame and dishonour in early modern Europe 2 Fama, shame punishments and the history of justice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 3 Towards an agenda for the wider study of shame: theorising from nineteenth-century British evidence PART II Rethinking blame 4 The shifting nature of blame: revisiting issues of blame, shame and culpability in the English criminal justice system 5 Guilty before the fact? The deviant body and the chimera of ‘precrime’, 1877–1939 6 The ‘convict stain’: desistence in the penal colony PART III Issues of authority in shame, blame and culpability 7 Penance, compensation, terror: the theory and practice of capital punishment in early modern France 8 Hurt, harm and humiliation: community responses to deviant behaviour in early modern Scotland 9 Violence against honour: shame and the crime of rape in the age of the Greek Revolution (1821–1828) 10 ‘Treat them according to the European tradition’: the discourse of blaming the poor, the problem of professional beggars and attitudes to poverty in modern Russia 11 Shaming punishments of women in Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 12 Insulting the Russian royal family: crime, blame and its sources 13 Crime and culpability in the community, the newspapers and the courts: the case of the feuding society of Crete (Greece) Bibliography Index