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Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse Hardcover - 1992
by Marie-Christine Leps
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"Discourse analysis is now practiced by many scholars around the world, but I know of no study as complete and as persuasive as this one."--Wlad Godzich, University of Geneva
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- Title Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse
- Author Marie-Christine Leps
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date 1992
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780822312550 / 0822312557
- Reading level 1640
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92007451
- Dewey Decimal Code 401.41
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Hardback. New. In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national systems of education, a cheap daily press, and various welfare measures designed to fight the spread of criminality. Leps focuses on three discursive practices: the emergence of criminology, the development of a mass-produced press, and the proliferation of crime fiction, in both England and France. Beginning where Foucault's work Discipline and Punish ends, Leps analyzes intertextual modes of knowledge production and shows how the elaboration of hegemonic truths about the criminal is related to the exercise of power. The scope of her investigation includes scientific treatises such as Criminal Man by Cesare…
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