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Shakespeare's Criminals Criminology, Fiction, and Drama
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Victoria M. Time
Book Code: GM0870
ISBN: 0-313-30870-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30870-3
192 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Criminology and Penology
Series Number: 52
Description: By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literary works have often been omitted, despite their interdisciplinary nature. Taking various Shakespearean plays and characters as case studies, this book opens novel theoretical avenues for conceptualizing crime and justice issues. What types of crimes did Shakespeare's characters commit? What were the motivations put forth for these crimes? What type of social control did Shakespeare advocate? By utilizing a content analysis procedure, the author confirms that many of the crimes that plague society today were also prevalent in Shakespeare's time. She gleans twelve criminological theories as motivations for character deviance. Character analysis also provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's notions of formal and informal social control.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The Problem and Elizabethan England
  • A Case for the Use of Literary Works in Criminoloy
  • The Historical Setting: Shakespeare's England
  • Crimes and Deviance Committed by Selected Characters
  • Violence Against the Person
  • Property Crimes
  • Noncriminal Deviance and Nonviolent Sexual Deviance
  • Relationship Between Criminological Theory and the Behavior of Selected Shakespearean Characters
  • Classicalism: Rational Choice: Macbeth
  • Lombrosianism, Theories of Heredity, and Psychopathy and the Antisocial Personality
  • Ecological Theory: Pompey, Froth
  • Social Learning Theories: Othello, Richard III
  • Social Control and Bond Theories: Lady Macbeth, Othello, Richard III
  • Normality of Crime and Strain/Anomie Theories
  • Social Reaction/Labeling Theory: Shylock
  • Conflict Theory: Shylock
  • Integrated Theories
  • Social Control and Legal Issues
  • The Etiology of Punishment
  • The Duke's Judgment
  • Conclusion and Recommendation
  • Appendix: Who Was William Shakespeare?
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-22098
LCC Class: PR3026
Dewey Class: 822
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