{"product_id":"apprehending-the-criminal-the-production-of-deviance-in-nineteenth-century-discourse-9780822312710","title":"Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marie-Christine Leps\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003eLeps 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 \u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe scope of her investigation includes scientific treatises such as \u003ci\u003eCriminal Man\u003c\/i\u003e by Cesare Lombroso and \u003ci\u003eThe English Convict\u003c\/i\u003e by Charles Goring, reports on the Jack the Ripper murders in \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLe Petit Parisien\u003c\/i\u003e, the Sherlock Holmes stories, Stevenson's \u003ci\u003eStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e, and novels by Zola and Bourget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591839170711,"sku":"9780822312710","price":3695.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822312710.webp?v=1774974764","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/apprehending-the-criminal-the-production-of-deviance-in-nineteenth-century-discourse-9780822312710","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}