Summary:
Offers a chronological survey of crime and punishment from Roman times to the present. This text also reviews the chronological content, aiming to build the students' understanding of the major themes of the chronological survey, focusing on how and why ideas about crime and punishment have changed and developed over the period, and with what results. Source-based investigations are combined with a narrative.

Table of Contents:
Was the Roman world peaceful and law-abiding?
was medieval justice harsh and superstitious?
was crime an ever-increasing danger in early modern Britain?
did the Industrial Revolution revolutionise crime and punishment?
was the 20th century the century of crime?
themes and concepts in Crime and Punishment.