Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1 General Introduction
- Chapter 2 Origin of the Present-Day Criminal Justice System
- Chapter 3 Restructuring of the Criminal Justice System During the Enlightenment and the French Period
- Chapter 4 Emergence of the Scientific Study of Crime, Criminals, and the Combatting of Crime
- Chapter 5 Establishment of Criminology in Italy and France
- Chapter 6 Development of Criminology in German-Speaking Europe and the United Kingdom
- Chapter 7 Establishment of Criminology in the Netherlands and Belgium
- Chapter 8 Ideologisation of Criminology in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union
- Chapter 9 Reception of European Criminology in the United States
- Chapter 10 Transatlantic Integration of Criminology
- Chapter 11 General Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Register of Names
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1 General Introduction
- Chapter 2 Origin of the Present-Day Criminal Justice System
- Chapter 3 Restructuring of the Criminal Justice System During the Enlightenment and the French Period
- Chapter 4 Emergence of the Scientific Study of Crime, Criminals, and the Combatting of Crime
- Chapter 5 Establishment of Criminology in Italy and France
- Chapter 6 Development of Criminology in German-Speaking Europe and the United Kingdom
- Chapter 7 Establishment of Criminology in the Netherlands and Belgium
- Chapter 8 Ideologisation of Criminology in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union
- Chapter 9 Reception of European Criminology in the United States
- Chapter 10 Transatlantic Integration of Criminology
- Chapter 11 General Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Register of Names
Summary
In the 1989 – 90 academic year, it was my pleasure to take over the course on General Criminology from the late Prof. Steven de Batselier, a course that had been taught for decades as part of the special programme in criminology at KU Leuven's Faculty of Law. It was my intention from the very start to write an introduction to general criminology for the many students taking the course – both criminology undergraduates and faculty of law graduates – that would facilitate both absorbing the course material and studying it independently. At the same time, I wished to take the opportunity aff orded by writing such an introduction not only to make the course suitable for the many law students but also to align it with the ideas that I had about how such an introduction should be structured.
For me, that meant two things. On the one hand, it seemed desirable for various reasons to devote considerable attention to the long history of criminology, in the West in general and in Belgium and the Netherlands in particular. The main reason was and is, however, that without thorough knowledge of that history it is difficult to understand the contemporary developments in theory, research, and practice. On the other hand, I considered it necessary to write not merely a kind of “history of ideas” in criminology but also to show how closely that history has been associated – right up to the present day – with the evolution of criminal law and the administration of criminal justice, and more generally with the combatting of crime in all its forms and varieties.
But actually writing such an introduction proved to be no simple matter. At that time, for instance, because of the absence of systematic and thorough research it was virtually impossible to write a historical introduction to criminology and criminal justice that would, at the very least, properly represent the history of criminology in Belgium and the Netherlands, and its influence on the organisation and operation of the criminal justice systems in those countries.
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- Criminology and the Criminal Justice SystemA Historical and Transatlantic Introduction, pp. v - viiiPublisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2017