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29 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,892 Decadence, Literature, and Society papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • The primary sources for this study are comprised of selections from Spain's national and provincial press: the documentation of these episodes in the national newspapers helped guide further research into the provincial publications that corresponded to the location of each crime and provided additional information about these crimes.

    “Muerta por su marido”: communal rejection of violence against women in Spain (1890–1936) · 2025 · DOI

  • Particular attention is paid to the hitherto understudied themes of the political production of middle-class support for punitive penal policies under conditions of neoliberal capitalism, and the crucial role played in this process by the privileged position accorded to violent street crime in the public domain.

    Neoliberal capitalism and middle-class punitiveness: Bringing Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to penology · 2013 · DOI

  • Drawing on a rich variety of approaches, the book principally aims, as stated in the Introduction to the volume by Cheliotis and Xenakis, to fill in an important gap in the literature by providing a systematic, but not necessarily exhaustive, introduction to issues of crime and punishment in contemporary Greece.

    Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives ed. by Leonidas K. Cheliotis and Sappho Xenakis (review) · 2013 · DOI

  • Is anxiety about crime rational, based on personal experience as a criminal victim? Or is it based on something more remote, such as opposition to social change? In the face of conflicting evidence, Furstenberg proposed dividing anxiety into two components: Fear, which tends to have some “rational” basis; and concern, which does not.

    Public Anxiety about Crime · 1979 · DOI

  • The Theory of Political Economy was an attempt to produce a pure theory of economic statics, with the aid of the differential calculus of De Morgan and the felicific calculus of Bentham2 ; “I believe”, Jevons wrote in the Preface to the fist edition, “that dynamical branches of the Science of Economy may remain to be developed, on the consideration of which I have not at all entered”. From one point of view, the fact that these problems should remain to be sorted out after a hundred years is a sad commentary on Jevons’s failure to find disciples and, more generally, on the character.

    Jevons, Marginalism and Manchester · 1972 · DOI

  • We need to know a lot more about dangerous offenders, and especially about dangerous professional criminals. When the railways were being built we became worried about the ease with which they could move about the country. Now they can move with almost equal ease all over the world. The development of profes its national and international sional crime, its ways of operating, repercussions and links, need urgent examination. Whether we can find any alternative to very long periods in prison for this kind of offender is another matter.

    The Dangerous Offender, the Fourth Franiz Newsam Memorial Lecture · 1968 · DOI

  • P A L M E R ‘Mr Palmer is a balanced observer, excellent at putting both sides of the often invidious arguments involved, yet still rekindling the heat of the controversy: but he does not allow the disputes over it how English should be studied to blur the central issue-why should be studied at all.

    ‘Barnaby Rudge’: The Genesis Of Violence · 1967 · DOI

  • If this probability is not sufficiently strong, he must avoid building on his interpretation of the facts, and decide the case instead on the basis of rules concerning the" burden of proof, rules concerning which of the parties is to bear the risk if a fact remains insufficiently clarified. Since this direct agreement is lacking in many legal situations, another, indirect, form of control by "the people" is necessary.

    The criminal and the sick · 1958 · DOI

  • It is scarcely necessary to add that the distortion and disguise thus necessitated may be concerned with the aim, as in the present essay, or with the object, as when the goal won to by the hero takes the form of: the king's daughter and half the kingdom (Bellerophon) or of the golden apples of the Hesperides (Heracles).

    Mother-Murder in Myth and Legend · 1944 · DOI

  • And while Jewish women's experiences are certainly present, Giunta and Transciatti seem more intent on highlighting Italian women's experiences, which they claim have been understudied by comparison.

    Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ed. by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Transciatti (review) · 2023 · DOI

  • While popular interest in notorious criminals and their deeds can be said to be perennial, ‘crime history’ and ‘criminal justice history’ were scarcely explored subjects in the 1970s.

    Who gave historical criminology a name? A history of 20th-century historical criminology · 2022 · DOI

  • Despite his notoriety amongst contemporary criminologists across the world, Matuska's case has not been analysed in studies of atrocities, paranoia or compulsive destruction.

    ‘Die Rache an den Eisenbahnen’: Elias Canetti und der Attentäter Sylvester Matuska · 2021 · DOI

  • In three circumstantial trials (1882–1886), despite the lack of evidence, the Ritters were found guilty and sentenced to death.

    Unwarranted Notoriety? The Ritter Trials, 1882–1886 · 2020 · DOI

  • Examining coverage in the local and national press, the article builds on the sparse literature concerned with absences in conventional explanations for how news media participate in the cultural construction of serial murderers.

    Almost famous: Peter Woodcock, media framing, and obscurity in the cultural construction of a serial killer · 2019 · DOI

  • Exploration of prison memoirs, it is argued, enhances our understanding of experiences of mental disorder in the underexplored context of the prison, highlighting the prisoners' voice, agency and advocacy of reform.

    ‘Close confinement tells very much upon a man’: Prison Memoirs, Insanity and the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Prison · 2019 · DOI

  • The impact of crime on indirect victims has generated a wealth of research; however, surprisingly little is known regarding the impact of ‘high-profile’ crime on a community living in a location that has become synonymous with the crime that took place there.

    Public–private tragedy · 2018 · DOI

  • ABSTRACT The historiography of epidemics and crime suggests that we might find effects of plague on criminal behaviour in the years of the Black Death and its aftermath, yet this question has not been systematically investigated by late medieval historians.

    Plague and crime: Bologna, 1348–1351 · 2015 · DOI

  • The topic is largely unexplored and is still underreported among Australian institutions and scholars, which is why the paper chooses an historical approach to describe the principal paths in this very new field of research.

    The evolution of the Australian ‘ndrangheta. An historical perspective · 2014 · DOI

  • " The chapter focuses on "who" are suitable targets rather than on "why" witches are targeted for displacement of blame, thus filling a gap in the literature.

    The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts (review) · 2008 · DOI

  • One aspect of the situation that remains to be explained, however, is the fact that convictions for men accused of wife-murder peaked in the 1880s and then fell again to mid-century levels in the 1890s, an issue that Wiener does not address.

    Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (review) · 2004 · DOI

  • It is highly improbable that the impact of social and economic reform on crime in Poland was limited to a “big bang” in 1990 and then ceased.

    Obraz przestępczości w Niemczech oraz w Polsce w okresie transformacji ustrojowej (wybrane aspekty) · 1996 · DOI

  • Although all but two of the stories originated on the Continent, they seem to have received far more popular attention in England than they did elsewhere in Europe, where their appeal appears to have been limited to the scientific community.

    Old and in the way: widows, witches, and spontaneous combustion in the age of reason · 1996 · DOI

  • It is argued that although black criminologists are needed to chart a black criminology, their participation alone is insufficient for the full development and vitality of this subfield.

    Development of a black criminology and the role of the black criminologist · 1992 · DOI

  • There are signs that marxist criminology may be moving toward something nearer to what Marx himself wrote; but it remains to be seen what effect this will have on marxist theories of crime and crime control.

    A Critique of Marxist Criminology · 1980 · DOI

  • Many fascinating questions remain to be posed, and answered; it seems not terribly presumptious to suggest that scholars and public officials alike would do well to take a longer, harder look at the past.

    Patterns of Criminality in New South Wales, 1788–1973 · 1974 · DOI

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