Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France : : The Medical Concept of National Decline / / Robert A. Nye.

Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French nationa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 763
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. The Historical Study of Deviance
  • Chapter II. Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter III. Between MacMahon and Boulanger: Crime and the "Moral Order" of the Opportunist Republic
  • Chapter IV. Heredity or Milieu: The Born-Criminal Debate and the Foundations of Criminology
  • Chapter V. Metaphors of Pathology in the Belle Epoque: The Rise of a Medical Model of Cultural Crisis
  • Chapter VI. The Politics of Social Defense: Violent Crime, "Apaches," and the Press at the Turn of the Century
  • Chapter VII. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Asylum Law and Legal Medicine in an Era of Social Defense
  • Chapter VIII. 1908: The Capital-Punishment Debate in the Chamber of Deputies
  • Chapter IX. Sport, Regeneration, and National Revival
  • Chapter X. Conclusion: Comparative Reflections on Great Britain and Germany
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter