Publisher's Synopsis
History of Criminology describes and illustrates the evolution of criminological theory in Britain and America. In an original introduction, the editor explains how a recognisable criminology emerged in the campaigns of penal reformers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It was given a distinctive shape in the work of policy makers, prison administrators, and doctors in the nineteenth century and then gradually came to be studied as an increasingly independent academic field in the twentieth century. - - The remainder of the book intersperses a comprehensive collection of writings of three hundred years criminology with criminological historians? own arguments about the development of their discipline.
