The History and Romance of Crime: Italian Prisons 1465608036, 9781465608031

A prison of great antiquity still exists in Rome and claims precedence in date over St. Angelo. This is the Mamertine P

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The History and Romance of Crime: Italian Prisons
1465608036, 9781465608031

THE three principal prisons in London in the fourteenth century were the Fleet, the KingÕs Bench and the Marshalsea, but

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The period in French prison practice treated in this volume is one of transition between the end of the Old Régime and t

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It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from g

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An ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violen

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The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. T

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The Time of the Crime explores the undoing of the detective genre in the Italian art cinema of the sixties and seventies

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From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, Harry Lime to Gilda, Madelein

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During a period dominated by the biological determinism of Cesare Lombroso, Italy constructed a new prison system that s

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During a period dominated by the biological determinism of Cesare Lombroso, Italy constructed a new prison system that s

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Writing the History of Crime investigates the development of historical writing on the subject of crime and its wider pl

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