Introduction -- Laws and punishments -- The understanding and nature of crime -- Coping with crime -- The new French system -- Crime and police in revolution and war -- Measuring a problem -- Danger in the city : danger in the countryside -- Protection, punishment, and reformation -- 'Scientific' criminology -- New professionals : old problems -- Penal policies and the impact of war -- Policing and punishing after the war -- National paths : common patterns.
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