What made a specific action recognized as violent and criminally liable? The answers to this question have changed over time, along with the historical interpretations of violence, crime, and criminal justice. This class will critically examine the historical understandings of violence and crime and explore how they transformed Western societies across the nineteenth and the twentieth century, shaped laws and carceral systems, activated policies of surveillance and repression, with a special emphasis on gender, class, age, and other categories of difference. Beginning with the broad debates in the histories of crime and violence, we will then be looking at everyday, interpersonal, and gender violence, violence as social protest and class conflict, the genealogy of the prison, and the construction of criminology and the “criminal”. Topics of study will also include police and criminal justice technologies, the emerge of the “dangerous classes”, juvenile delinquency, female crime, sexual violence in war and in peacetime.

1. Introduction: The historicity of crime and violence
2. Methodology and sources
3. Gender and crime
4. The female face of crime: prostitution, infanticides
5. Crimes of honour
6. The emergence of the “dangerous classes”: crime as social protest and class conflict
7. Interpersonal violence: “crime” or “incident”?
8. Surveillance and punishment: police and prisons

Historical dimensions of sexual violence

9. Sexual violence, sexual crimes: histories from court archives
10. The legal aspects of sexual crimes
11. Sexual violence and the emergence of experts: medical perceptions of sexual crimes
12. Sexual violence across the Greek wars of the twentieth century
13. In-Class final papers’ presentation

*Across the spring semester 2022-2023 the course is supported by the “Brutal Intimacies: A History of Rape in Modern Greece, 1900s-1960s”, Research Program, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, “2nd call of H.F.R.I. research projects for the support of Postdoctoral Researchers”, project number: 9.

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Συναφή επιστημονικά περιοδικά:

• British Journal of Criminology
• Cultural and Social History
• Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies
• Criminal Justice History
• Gender and History
• History Workshop Journal
• Journal of the History of Sexuality
• Journal of Social History
• Law, Crime and History – SOLON
• Newsletter of the International Association of the Association for Criminal Justice History
• Social History