A call for papers, with submission deadline of 15 February 2010, has been issued for Crime & Punishment in Modern Europe, 1870-1990, a conference to be held 18-20 November 2010, at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Papers are invited on the following topics, which include a number of legal information or legal communication issues:
- “the social and cultural history of criminal justice
- the history of the criminal law and penal policy
- the history of the criminal trial
- the history of penal reform
- the role of gender in criminal justice
- the history of juvenile justice
- the history of prisons
- criminal justice and medicine/science
- criminal justice and the welfare state
- the relationship of criminal justice to political cultures, systems, and ideologies
- criminal justice and the history of the legal profession”
For more information, please see the call for papers.
HT Professor Dan Ernst at Legal History Blog.
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