1 Introduction: do you have plane-spotters in New Zealand?Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity&Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall 1
2 It's a small world after all? Reflections on violence in comparative perspectives&John Carter Wood 36
3 Moral panics and violent street crime 1750-2000:a comparative perspective&Peter King 53
4 'The great murder mystery' or explaining declining homicide rates&Maria Kaspersson 72
5 Strangers, mobilisation and the production of weak ties:railway traffic and violence in nineteenth-century South-West Germany&Susanne Karstedt 89
6 'Inventing' the juvenile delinquent in nineteenth-century Europe&Heather Shore 110
7 'Scoundrels and scallywags, and some honest men…'Memoirs and the self-image of French and English policemen c.1870-1939&Paul Lawrence 125
8 Policing the seaside holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastián from the 1870s to the 1930s&John K. Walton 145
9 'The greatest efficiency': British and American military law, 1866-1918&Gerry Oram 159
10 The decline and renaissance of shame in modern penal systems&John Pr 178
11 Practical and philosophical dilemmas in cross-cultural research: the future of comparative crime history?&Bronwyn Morrison 195
Index 213