Crime and punishment : in the beginning

The rise of legal traditions

Crime in a changing landscape : from feudalism to the city and the state

The transformation of punishment and the rise of the penitentiary

Highwaymen, bandits, brigands and bushrangers : bands of thieves and early organized criminality

Prohibitions, pirates, slave traders, drug smugglers and the internationalization of criminality

The face of modern murder

Crime and punishment in a post-colonial world

Crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.