This historical annual is the major publication in the general area of the history of crime, the criminal courts, policing, and punishment in all geographical regions and from ancient to modern times. In addition to analytical articles, the annual provides reviews of the major books in these areas as well as book review essays on major publications, collections, new findings, and methodologies. The annual serves both as a forum for the leading research scholarship in these subject areas and as an inter- and multi-disciplinary focus on the crime and criminal justice fields.

The major publication in the general area of the history of crime, the criminal courts, policing, and punishment.

Preface; "Coram Domino Comite et suis Iudicibus": Penal Procedures in Early Fourteenth-Century Dubrovnik by Nella LonzaPolicing Piedmont: The "Well Ordered" Italian Police State in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1821 by Michael BroersCombatting the Sexual Abuse of Children in France, 1825-1913 by James M. DonovanThe Constabulary and the Criminal Justice System in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Ian BridgemanAnti-Irish Violence in Victorian England: Some Perspectives by Roger SwiftMinorities Policing Minorities as a Strategy of Social Control: A Historical Analysis of Tribal Police in the United States by David E. BarlowThe Technology of Professionalism: The Identification of Criminals in Early Twentieth-Century Canada by Greg MarquisWar, Delinquency, and Society in Bordeaux, 1914-1918 by Philippe ChassaigneAuthority, Control, and Class Justice: The Role of the Sondergerichte in the Transition from Weimar Germany to the Third Reich by Anthony McElligottThe Decline of Women in the Criminal Process: A Comparative History by Malcolm FeeleyBook Review EssayThe Postmodern Prostitute: A Thematic Review of Recent Research by Augustine BranniganBook ReviewsJohn K. Brackett, Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 by Xavier RousseauLincoln B. Faller, Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing by W. R. OwensAdam J. Hirsch, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America by Victor BaileyJean-Claude Farcy, Guide des Archives Judicaires et Pénitentiares, 1800-1958 and E. M. Palmegiano, Crimes in Victorian Britain: An Annotated Bibliography from Nineteenth-Century British Magazines by Clive EmsleyPaula J. Byrne, Criminal Law and the Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810-1830 by Stephen GartonDavid Walker with Stephen Garton and Julia Horne (eds.), Crimes and Trials, Australian Cultural History by Mark FinnaneJohn McLaren, Hamar Foster, and Chet Orloff (eds.), Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West by Greg MarquisMaeve E. Doggett, Marriage, Wife-Beating, and the Law in Victorian England and Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London by Krista CowmanP. Moczydlowski, The Hidden Life of Polish Prisons by Paul G. LewisClive Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History by David PhilipsGerry R. Rubin, Durban 1942: A British Troopship Revolt by David EnglanderGreg Marquis, Policing Canada's Century: A History of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police by Keith Edgerton and Jonathan SwaingerTerrence Sullivan, Sexual Abuse and the Rights of Children: Reforming Canadian Law by Joseph P. HornickKaty J. Harriger, Independent Justice: The Federal Special Prosecutor in American Politics by Michal R. BelknapIndex