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HIST 10132 - Crime & Punishment in Historical, Perspective

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(GLIS)
10132. CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Our subject is the history of crime and punishment in broad perspective, centering our attention on crimes of violence and state punishments in early modern and modern Europe, with occasional comparative looks to the contemporary United States. The course is structured around a series of questions. How have levels of violence changed from the early modern to the modern period? How have changes in violence been explained? How have particular crimes been understood in particular places at particular times? How has the apparatus of justice functioned? What have been the forms and the meanings of judicial punishments? How shall we interpret representations of crime and justice in literature and the press? In pursuing these questions, we will examine the analysis and debates of prominent historians together with accessible primary sources. Readings will include: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Peter Spierenburg, The Spectacle of Suffering, Eric Johnson, Urbanization and Crime in Germany, Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, and much more. [HSS]