{"product_id":"violence-and-punishment-9780745653488","title":"Violence and Punishment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories  of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all  connected. Taking the decline of violence and the transformation of  punishment as its guiding themes, the book highlights key dynamics of  historical and social change, and charts how a refinement and civilizing  of manners, and new forms of celebration and festival, accompanied the  decline of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePieter Spierenburg, a leading figure in historical criminology,  skillfully extends his view over three continents, back to the middle  ages and even beyond to the Stone Age. Ranging along the way from murder  to etiquette, from social control to popular culture, from religion to  death, and from honor to prisons, every chapter creatively uses the  theories of Norbert Elias, while also engaging with the work of Foucault  and Durkheim.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scope and rigor of the analysis will strongly interest scholars  of criminology, history, and s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e award for Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Pieter Spierenburg is one of the world’s experts on the history of violent crime, and his writings are filled with fascinating facts and thought-provoking insights. The essays in this volume will inform and stimulate anyone interested in human violence and its history.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSteven Pinker, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Pieter Spierenburg is our leading student of the civilizing process in punishment and society. \u003ci\u003eViolence and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e ties together decades of research into the dynamics of violence and state formation; truly the definitive work on the topic.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“With this strong new addition to his previous work, Pieter Spierenburg consolidates his position as Europe's leading historian of violence.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRoger Lane, Haverford College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Violence and Punishment within Civilizing Processes page 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE Violence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Amsterdam, Fifteenth–Twentieth Centuries 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Homicide and the Law in the Dutch Republic: A Peaceful Country? 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Violence and Culture: Bloodshed in Two or Three Worlds 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO Punishment and Social Control\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Punishment, Power and History: Foucault and Elias 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Monkey Butt’s Mate: On Informal Social Control, Standards of Violence and Notions of Privacy 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 \"The Green, Green Grass of Home:\" Refl ections on Capital Punishment and the Penal System in Europe and America from a Long-Term Perspective 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE Civilizing the Body in Human History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Elites and Etiquette: Changing Standards of Personal Conduct in the Netherlands until 1800 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Civilizing Celebrations: An Exploration of the Festive Universe 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Body’s End: Death and Paradise in Human History 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: A Personal Recollection of Norbert Elias and How I Became a Crime Historian 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchival Sources 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 221\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404402663767,"sku":"9780745653488","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violence-and-punishment-9780745653488","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}