TY - BOOK ID - 138950737 TI - Apprehending the Criminal : The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse PY - 2012 SN - 082239961X PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Crime in mass media -- History -- 19th century. KW - Criminology -- History -- 20th century. KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Discourse analysis KW - Crime in mass media KW - Criminology KW - History KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138950737 AB - 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 ER -