TY - BOOK ID - 127121901 TI - Morality, crime and social control in Europe 1500-1900 AU - Matikainen, Olli AU - Lidman, Satu PY - 2014 SN - 952222572X 9789522225726 PB - Helsinki: Finnish literature society, DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127121901 AB - This book explores key themes in European history through case studies scrutinizing the much-debated concept of "social control" from its exercise within the family and local communities to interventions at the highest state level. A wide range of regulated practices and institutions can be treated as manifestations or forces of social control. Their common feature is the way in which thei develop a set of practices and rituals, some of which are enduring and seemingly unchanging, some in a state of transition or subjected to challenges, and others "new" and in the process of formation. The articles in this book cover a time span from the early modern period up to the twentieth century, and a geographical spread from various locations in Nordic countries to continental Europe and the British Isles. ER -