A Global History of Crime and Punishment

Clive Emsley was Professor of History and Co-Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University, UK. His books include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987), The English Police: A Political and Social History (1991) and Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999). Sara McDougall is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and appointed to the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies gender and justice in the Middle Ages, with a focus on women’s encounters with legal and religious ideas in the society and culture of Medieval France. She is the author of two books, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, c.800-1230 (2017). She has co-edited special issues for Law & History Review and Gender & History.

Volume 1: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in Antiquity
Edited by Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, USA

Volume 2: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age
Edited by Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Volume 3: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Renaissance
Edited by Laura Stokes and Michael Menna, both Stanford University, USA

Volume 4: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Xavier Rousseaux, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Volume 5: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Empire
Edited by Mark Finnane, Griffith University, Australia

Volume 6: A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age
Edited by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK