Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (384 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 1984
Series Statement:
Princeton Legacy Library
Parallel Title:
Print version Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France : The Medical Concept of National Decline
DDC:
302.5/42/0944
Keywords:
Criminal justice, Administration of History 19th century
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Degeneration Public opinion 19th century
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History
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Deviant behavior Public opinion 19th century
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History
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Public opinion History 19th century
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Physicians Attitudes 19th century
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History
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France Politics and government 1870-1940
Abstract:
Main description: Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Description / Table of Contents:
FrontmatterContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter I. The Historical Study of DevianceChapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist RepublicChapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of CriminologyChapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural CrisisChapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the CenturyChapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social DefenseChapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of DeputiesChapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National RevivalChapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and GermanyBibliographyIndexBackmatter.
DOI:
10.1515/9781400856275
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