Index
Abelard, Peter, 165, 207
Abergavenny, Lord, 125
Abortion, 25, 31, 60, 65, 173 Absolution, 169
Absolutism, 5, 85, 206
duels, 103
fines, 128
monopoly of violence, 145 Accessories.
See Accomplices Accomplices, 36, 37, 146, 242 Accusational system, 68-70 Act of God, 177Adam Walsh Act, 2006 (US), 306 Adiaphora, 207
Adultery, 3, 22, 24, 28, 44, 49, 58, 59, 65, 218
and Charlemagne, 198
in Roman law, 154
as treason, 80
^thelberht, 55, 130
Afterlife, 43, 44
Agents provocateurs, 272
Agriculture, and state, 332
AIDS, 63, 330
Albania, 53
Alcohol, 2
Alcoholism, as crime, 299
Alfred, King, 82, 220
Algerian war, 94, 168
Allende, Salvador, 122
Amercements, 124
American Revolution, 120
Amish, 175, 323
Amnesties. See Pardons
Anabaptists, 156, 159, 160,
323
Anarchists, 163, 351
Anglo-Saxon law, 56
Animals, 31
and law, 59
liability of, 243 punishment of, 212
Animal slaughter, 25
Animus furandi, 211
Anthropology, and early state, 320-321
Anti-Social Behavior Orders, England,
302
Antragsdelikte, 17
Apostacy, 22, 151
Aquinas, Thomas, 160, 236 and intent, 219
Archbishop of York, 209
Aristotle, 188
law, intent, 213
and police, 270
Armenian genocide, 121
Armies, citizen, 136
Army, and police, 261-262,
264
Arrest, 251, 254
Arson, 22, 42, 202, 219, 221
Ashurst, William Henry, 182
Assassination, 42, 77, 80, 97
Assassins, medieval, 224
Assault, 26, 42, 101, 216
Assyria, law, 213
Atheism, 184
China, 184
and developing world, 184
and sin, 157
Atimia, 118
Atimos, 166
Attempts, 216, 220. See also Inchoate crime
criminal, 221
German law, 221
Augustine, 102, 174, 351
and heresy, 153 Augustus, 65, 81 Austin, John, 186 Australia, 136
convict settlements, 120
and pedophiles, 123
Austria, 24, 351
religious views in, 63
Autocracies, 18, 26, 58, 77 Automobiles, 2, 9, 21, 27, 34
Aveirah lishmah, 210
Aztecs, 14, 24, 42, 43, 62, 290
gods, 177
and treason, 74
Babylonia, 41, 47
Bacon, Francis, 159
Bail, 129, 290, 301, 312
bonds, 301
Banditi, Florence, 259
Banishment, 19, 20, 114, 117-119, 120, 136, 351
China, 122
England, 120
France, 120
internal, 121-123
and sex offenders, 123
Banking, 22
Bank of England, 147
Bankruptcy, 23
Baptism, 24, 45
Bartolus, 66
Basic Law, Germany, 89
Battered-wife syndrome, 50
Bavaria, 24, 25, 74, 87, 190
conviction rates, 265
Bayle, Pierre, 184
Beccaria, Cesare, 109, 132, 140, 203, 204,
266
and hidden punishments, 205
and sin, 180
Begging, 23, 25
Beheading, 142, 204
Beijing police, 260
Benefit of clergy, 44, 140-141, 147
Bentham, Jeremy, 43, 109, 111, 186, 189
Bertillon, Alphonse, 281-283
Bestiality, 22, 24, 42, 60, 190
Betrayal, 32, 58
Bible, 24.
See also Christ, Jesus;Christianity; Old Testament;
Ten Commandments
Big data, and crime, 285
Binding-over, 256, 291
Births, registration of, 30
Blackmail, 28
Black people, 299, 345, 351
charged disproportionately, 234
and lynching, 105
and police, 257
US, 163
Blackstone, William, 113, 127, 189, 229 Blasphemy, 15, 22, 25, 31, 33, 36, 42, 63, 159, 175, 182-183
in ancient Greece, 154
in England, 180
law against, 156
Blinding, 132
Blood-spatter analysis, 282
Blood typing, 280
Blue laws, 190
Bodily injuries, 55
Boleyn, Anne, 75
Bondsmen, 290
Booth, John Wilkes, 97
Bounty hunters, 260, 278
Bracton, Henry of, 208, 211
and intent, 214
Brainwashing, 150
Brandeis, Louis, 288
Branding, 20, 110, 142
Breach of trust, 28
Breaking on the wheel, 143, 202
Brentano, Lujo, 317
Brian, ChiefJustice, 150
Briand, Aristide, 201
Bribery, 29, 32, 42, 172, 191, 194
Britain. See England
Brockway, Zebulon, 304
Bryce, James, 344
Buckingham, Duke of, 220
Budapest police, 263
Buddhism, 39, 43, 154, 164
Bulgaria, 128
Bureaucracy, and the state, 322
Burgess, Guy, 94
Burglary, 34, 36. See also Housebreaking, and burglary
Burke, Edmund, 186, 199
Burning alive, 202
Burr, Aaron, 103
Bush, George H. W., 157
Byzantine Empire, 142
Caesar, Julius, 279
Calas, Jean, 140
Calvin, John, 156, 165, 166
Calvinists, 63
Calvin Klein, legal case, 307
Cameras, security, 284
Canada, 25, 76, 302
Cannibalism, 42
Canonists, 200
and deterrence, 204
and intent, 214
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 209
Capital punishment. See Death penalty
Capote, Truman, 146
Carabinieri, 261, 263
Carjacking, 27
Carolina, German penal code, 68, 221, 228
Carolingians, 63
Cars. See Automobiles
Castile, 52
Castration, 117, 128, 132, 139
Castro, Fidel, 77, 176
Cathars, 171, 200, 304
Catholic Church, 25, 40
Catholicism, 25, 40, 84, 156, 159
Chadwick, Edwin, 283, 288
Chalcedon, Council of, 155
Charge stacking, 343
Charivaris, 104
Charlemagne, 42, 52, 69, 198, 200, 229 capitulary, 65
Charles I, 87, 88, 91
Charles II, 91
Chartists, 79, 162
Chatelet, Paris, 267
Check bouncing, 27
Chicago, 285, 297, 299, 327
Chicago Seven, 342
Child abuse, 17, 99
Child marriage, 100
Child molesters, 105
Child pornography, 211
Children, 30, 35 abandoned, 250 and crime, 208 legal status, 30 as property, 99 unborn, 31
China, 5
ancient, 14, 17, 43 communist regime, 289 confession, 171
death penalty, 134, 141 emperors, 49, 79, 142 fines, 129 gods, 40
Han empire, 135
Hans, 259
law, intent of, 213
Maoist, 172
Ming Empire, 157 moderation of punishments, 139 one-child policy, 126 outlawry, 119 pardons, 266 penal code, 41
police, 257, 260, 289, 295
China (cont.)
public executions, 115 punishment, 118 Qin era, 110 Qing dynasty, 141 rulers, supernatural, 156 Ten Abominations, 221 treason, 73, 83
Warring States, 51, 71
Zhou dynasty, 322
Christ, Jesus, 15, 181, 287, 323
as blasphemer, 152 homosexual sex, 183 peculiar status, 155 Sermon on the Mount, 218
Christian III, 132
Christianity, 2, 14, 15, 41, 58, 100, 154, 181.
See also Bible; Christ, Jesus; Old Testament; Ten Commandmentsenforcement of, 175 infanticide, 30 monotheism, 159 other gods, 152 penance, 43, 45 purgatory, 43 restitution, 55 under Rome, 158
Christian Science, 182
Civil asset forfeiture, 34, 300, 312
Civil commitment, 239, 302
Civilizing process, 7, 145, 316, 319, 324,
336
Civil law codes, 23, 34, 35, 301
and evidence, 275
Civil recovery laws, 34
Civil society
and crime, 5
as enforcer, 330 self-policing, 6
Civil War, England, 87
Civil War, US, 77, 96, 262
Clothar, 257
Coining, 57
Coin shaving, 27 Cold War, 94, 96
Collaboration, 98, 205 fascist, 163
Collins, Wilkie, 273
Colquhoun, Patrick, 293
Commercial regulation, 23
Common law, 31, 35, 37
and evidence, 275
Commune, 1870, 120
Communists, 79
Community policing, 294
Compensation, 16, 50, 51, 56,
123
forbidden in Russia, 132
Competition law, 23
Composition, 212
Compounding, 60
Compulsion, and crime, 208 Compurgators, 45, 229
Concierges, 276
Concubinage, 167
Confession, 19, 40, 140, 271 development of, 168-170 extracted by torture, 165 queen of proof, 166 and treason, 76
Confinement, solitary, 315
Confino, 121
Confucianism, 154, 171, 351
rulers, 43
Conqueror, William the, 132
Conquest, 1066, 64, 67, 84
Consent, age of, 28, 305 as legally significant, 101 and rape, 29
Conspiracy, 217, 222, 223. See also Inchoate crime
Constables, 125, 252, 258, 269
Constantine, 155, 156
Constitution, US, 73, 76, 93, 140 amendments, 127, 182, 313 and treason, 82
Construction law, 23
Consumer products, 28
Consumption codes, 23
Contagious Disease Acts, England, 234 Contempt of court, 174
Contract law, 188
Convention on Cybercrime, 2001
(Europe), 307
Conviction, freedom of, 159 Conviction rates, 265
increase of, 20
US, 21
Coronavirus, 300
Corporations, 28, 31
and fines, 130
Corruption, 28, 38
Council of the Areopagus, 48 Counterfeiting, 27, 57, 87 as treason, 81
Courts, 17, 52, 67 development of, 67 early, 47-48 ecclesiastical, 70 French, 67
Crime(s), 3, 13
caused by social conditions, 226 change in nature of, 22 day vs.
night, 288 as like disease, 226 expansion of, 10, 13, 26 federal, US, 22 against humanity, 62 ideological, 198 and new technologies, 3, 10 numbers of, 13 occult, 275 of omission, 35 as opportunistic, 152 of preparation, 215-216 prevention of, 109, 226-235 public, 17, 18, 24 as public harm, 57 rates of, 2, 4, 347-348 undetected, 265 white-collar, 28, 38, 191, 349Crimen maiestatis, 81
Crime prevention, as public good, 198 Crime rates, 4, 311
Criminalization, over-, 33, 38 Criminal Justice Act, 2003 (England), 304
Criminology, 311
Critias, 164
Cromwell, Oliver, 85, 91, 181
Cromwell, Thomas, 271 Crowd control, 264
Crucifixion, 202
Cruising, 27
Cuba, 176
and fines, 129
Currency, 27
Cursing, 25 Customary law, 39
Damages, punitive, 126
Damiens, Robert, 202
Damnation, 43
Dangerousness, 109, 230
Dante Alighieri, 58, 73
Death penalty, 5, 19, 20, 35, 42, 59, 113, 131, 139
abolition, 133
arguments for, 134
and benefit of clergy, 141
England, 19, 110, 139, 141, 203
France, 133
as human rights issue, 134
and lynching, 106
means of, 142
Norway, 205
public opinion and, 133
in Rome, 133
US, 133, 141
Weimar Republic, 89
Debtors, 23, 137
Debtor's prison, 23
Debt slavery, 23
Decapitation. See Beheading Defamation, 25, 31
Delicta, 63
Delphi, 15
Democracy, 26
and crime, 18
and self-discipline, 319
Denmark, 45, 113, 183, 301
Denunciation, 70, 276
Deodands, 212, 300, 312
Desertion, 60
Despotism, and crime, 18
Detectives, 272-273
Deterrence, 19, 197-199, 206,
226
logic of, 204
Devlin, Patrick, 185, 306, 307
Devonshire, Duke of, 127
Diana, Princess, 81, 194, 274
Dickens, Charles, 273
Diffidatio, 84
Dikasteria, 59
Dionisius, 220
Disciplinary institutions, 338
Discipline, Foucauldian, 316, 317, 354
Discretion, to prosecute, 17
Disorderly conduct, 270
Dissection, part of punishment, 203
Divorce, 100
DNA, 295, 314
as evidence, 280-283, 284
Dolus, 213
Domestication syndrome, 325
Domestic violence, 3, 17, 30, 110, 346
Domicilio coatto, 297
Dominican Order, 151, 270
Doolittle, Alfred, 335
Dracon, code, 48, 63, 64, 131
Dreyfus, Alfred, 281
Drinking, 329
Drivers, 21
Driving, drunk, 34, 192
Drug laws, 30, 38
Drug selling, 34
Drug use, 2
Drunkenness, 24, 25, 30, 209
Due care, 188
Duels, 49, 101-103, 191, 194
Due process, 34, 176, 224, 301
Durkheim, Emile, 2, 13, 26, 58, 139, 145,
146, 190, 201, 285, 352
Duty of help, 193
Earp, Wyatt, 260
Eavesdropping, 278
Edict of Rothar, 220
Education, compulsory, 30, 57
Edward II, 82, 87, 167
Egypt, 14, 42, 290-291
debaptism, 118
gods, 164, 177
intent, 221
Middle Kingdom, 13
police, 257
suicide, 323
treason, 74
Elias, Norbert, 7, 316, 317, 318, 319, 326, 335, 337, 340
Elizabeth, Queen, 159
Elizabethan era, 24
El Salvador, 35
Embezzlement, 32, 57, 154
Emergency law, 26
Emergency numbers, 274
Emergency Powers Act, 1920
(England), 262
Emperors, China, 49, 79, 142
Emperors, Japan, 89
Encryption software, 287
Endangerment, 36, 243-244
Engels, Friedrich, 352
England, 10, 17, 20, 30, 36, 37, 41, 52 acquittals, 21 and blasphemy, 183 death penalty, 134
fasting for atonement (1832), 42 medieval, 44 police, 262
Tudor, 24
Enlightenment, 6, 20, 23, 109, 139, 140, 179, 201, 208, 240
and atheism, 184
and retribution, 115
Entrapment, 277, 293
Environmentalism, 191
Environmental law, 344
Equity law, 140
Ergastolo, 201
Escheating, 78
Eshunna, law code (Sumeria), 124
Espionage, 57, 95, 97
Ethnic cleansing, 121
Etiquette, 324
manuals, 8
Euripedes, 153
European Union, 78 Euthanasia, 25, 173, 190, 195 Evidence
circumstantial, 167 development of, 275-276 needed for conviction, 19 physical, 46
scientific, 279-280 Exchange, importance of,
130
Excommunication, 43, 44, 65,
118
Executioners, 70
Executions, 117, 131
harsh, 202-203
mass, 205
privatized, 143 public, 317
public, last, 205 Exhibitionism, 17 Exile.
See Banishment Expertise, and evidence, 282 Extortion, 28Extramarital sex. See Adultery Extreme risk protection, 299 Eyewitnesses, 279
Face recognition technology, 284-285
Facilitators. See Accomplices Factory Act, 1844 (England), 125
Fairness, as legal concept, 188 Fas, 42, 79
FBI, 260, 283
Fealty, 84 Felonies, 37
Felony offenders, 21
Femicide, 31
Fenians, 162
Feuds, 5, 45, 47, 51, 52, 54, 212 Feuerbach, Anselm von, 154 Feuerbach, P. J. von, 113
Fines, 1, 5, 20, 56, 114, 123-131
atoned for in prison, 137
China, 129
on corporations, 126
inappropriate for serious crime,
127
limits on, 127
non-cash economies, 128
for pollution, 126
as pricing behavior, 125
and slaves, 129
as substitute for prison, 144 Fingerprints, 280, 282-283 Finland, 17, 313
and fines, 129
First Amendment, 182. See also
Free speech
Flogging, 20
in prison, 143
Florence, 52, 128, 271
police, 277
Florida, 288, 297
Floyd, George, 315
Fonda, Jane, 210, 342
Food adulteration, 57
Food safety, 23
Foreign Legion, 136
Forgery, 28, 63, 110
Fornication, 24, 26, 42
Foucault, Michel, 20, 202, 236, 239, 316, 318, 319, 338, 340, 343
and discipline, 317, 354
and hidden punishments, 205
in San Francisco, 329
Fouche, Joseph, 272
Founding Fathers, US, 76, 95
France, 28, 30, 37, 45, 50, 53, 60
Anatole, 299
Franciscan Order, 270
Frank, Hans, 134
Frank, Niklas, 134
Frankpledge, 289, 312
Fraud, 24, 27, 28, 32, 58
and intent, 215, 224
as public crime, 60
Fraud Act, 2006 (England), 224
Frederick the Great, 202
Free speech, 31, 33, 92, 174-175, 183, 307. See also First Amendment
Free Spirits, 178
Freikorps, 263
French, Marilyn, 234
French Revolution, 1789, 26, 37, 92, 95, 186, 256
police, 258
French Revolution, 1832, 253
French Revolution, 1848, 253
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prussia, 336
Fumi, Bartolomeo, 207
Fustuarium, 59
Galileo Galilei, 170
Galleys, 136, 142
Gambling, 34
Gangs, 297
Gardes champetres, 293
Gastrecht, 187
Gaul, 40
Gays, marriage, 330.
See alsoHomosexuality
Gaza, 53
Gendarmerie, 249, 250, 252, 262, 263, 264
Generalgouvernement, 134
Genesis, 59
Genital mutilation, 101
Genocide, punishment of, 132
Gentile, Giovanni Valentio, 166
George III, 87, 97, 208
Germanic law, 42, 58, 200
Carolina, 68, 221, 228
and duel, 102
and intent, 211, 213
and treason, 82
Germany, 17, 33, 35, 36, 42, 45 death penalty, 134
Great Criminal Senate, 193 human sacrifice, 42
Gladiatorial combats, 202
Gleaning, 30, 194
Gnostics, 156
God(s), 43
as amoral, 177 big, 39-40, 164, 175
as enforcers, 13, 39, 44, 173
Greek, 14, 41, 153
and humans, 41 monotheistic, 165 oaths, 45 ordeals, 45-46 punishment, 15, 16
Goffman, Erving, 338
Good faith, as legal concept, 188
Good Samaritan laws, 35, 193
Google, 130
Gordon riots, 199, 334
Gortyn, Great Code of, 48 Governmentality, 316, 317
Graffiti, 30
Graphe, 64
Graphology, 281
Great Act, 1682 (American colonies), 141
Great Criminal Senate, Germany, 193
Greece, 313
ancient, 14, 15, 17, 18, 24, 31, 44, 45 intent, 213, 221 law, 48, 118
police, 257
and sacrilege, 154
and treason, 74
Zeus, 14, 153-154, 178, 270
Greek-Turkish population exchanges, 1923, 121
Gregory IX, 159
Grober Unfug, 33
Grotius, Hugo, 180
Guantanamo, 163
Guardia civil, Spain, 263
Guardian Angels, 104
Guiana, 120
Guillotine, 142, 204
Haakonsson, Eric, 102
Habeas corpus, 26
Habitual Criminals Act, 1869
(England), 297
Habsburg Empire, 52
Hadfield, James, 97
Hale, ChiefJustice, 182
Hall, Arthur Cleveland, 349
Hamilton, Alexander, 103
Hammurabi, code, 41, 212
Han empire, China, 135
Hangings, end of public, 204
Hans, China, 259
Hardin, John Wesley, 260
Hard labor, 204
Harm, in penal code, 35
Hate crime, 36, 211
Hate speech, 33, 175
Haw Haw, Lord, 94
Hebrew law, 15, 59, 63, 243
and animals, 212
Hegel, G. F. W., 18, 115, 322, 336
Hell, as punishment, 14, 43, 44, 47
Helsinge law, Sweden, 52
Henry II, 69
Henry IV, 91
Henry VII, 90, 125
Henry VIII, 26, 79, 95, 159, 271 and treason, 75
Heresy, 15, 16, 42 pursued, 153 like treason, 154
Heretics, 151, 174, 197, 271
Hesiod, 48
Hewitt, James, 81
Hickok, Wild Bill, 260
Hinduism, 43
Hispanic people, 299
Hiss, Alger, 96
Hit-and-run, 193
Hitler, Adolf, 77, 97, 318
HIV, 300, 329
Hobbes, Thomas, 85, 111
and atheism, 184
and intent, 219
and sin, 179
Hochverrat, 82, 94
Holland, 24, 104, 302
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 209
Holmes, Sherlock, 273
Holocaust, 121
Holy Roman Empire, 66, 91. See also
Roman Empire
Homelessness, 30
as crime, 299
Homer, 51, 64, 211
and locks, 287
Homeric period, 62
Homicide, 3, 15, 17, 24, 25, 42, 52, 56, 63 accidental, 44
attempted, 110, 211 and consent, 101 in early law, 48
England, 214 justifiable, 48-49, 101 and manslaughter, 215 as public crime, 59, 60, 64 rates of, 3
Homo sapiens, 321
evolutionary advantage of, 325
and extinction of other hominoids, 332
Homosexuality, 24, 173, 329 criminalization of, 185
Honesty, in commercial law, 188
Honor, 18, 25, 61, 145, 208
Honor killings, 191
Hospitality law, 187
Hostiensis, 66, 68, 200
Housebreaking, and burglary, 288.
See also Burglary
Houses of correction, 136, 236
Howard, Katherine, 75
Howard, Lord Thomas, 80
Hubris, 66
Hue and cry, 67, 193, 258, 267, 268 Huguenots, 84, 121
Human rights, and Durkheim, 353 Hume, David, 233
Humiliation, public, 200
Hundreds, England, 104, 290
Hunger strikes, 162, 163
Hunting, 192
Hush money, 28
Hussein, Saddam, 134
Hutterite sect, 156
Hydrosphygmograph, 231
Iceland, 16, 24, 49, 53, 61
banishment, 119
law, 54
Idolatry, 22, 24, 183
Idols, false, worshipping, 58
Ili, Xinjiang, 122
Iliad, 47, 51
Illegality, expansion of, 11 Immigration law, 27, 344 Immorality, 42, 173
changing nature of, 186
Imperial Peace Statute, Habsburg, 1495, 52
Implicit endangerment offenses, 34 Imprisonment, 4
rise in, 115
Inca Empire, 14, 16, 42, 63
death penalty, 117
Incapacitation, 112, 113, 201, 237, 239 and prison, 137
Incest, 24, 60, 189
Inchoate crime, 10, 36, 37, 215, 295
double, 223
law, 344
and renunciation, 217
second order, 217
Incitement. See Inchoate crime Indentured service, 101
Indeterminate sentencing, 239-240 India, 25
ancient, 14
partition of, 121
Indicia, 279
Indonesia, 255
Ine, King, 223
Inebriants, 2
Infamia, 70, 228
Infanticide, 30, 45, 280-281
Infants, 24
Infibulation, 182
Informants, 276, 278
Inheritance, 100
Inmates, numbers of, 144
Innocent III, 65, 79, 157
Inquisition, 135, 140, 160, 180, 271, 304
Inquisitional system, 68
Insanity
criminal, 230
defense, 208
temporary, 50
Insider trading, 28, 34, 38, 191-192, 194 punishment for, 130
Insurance, 3, 317
and theft, 286
Intellectual property, 191
Intent. See Thoughts, as object of law Intent, and crime, 10, 207-225 International Criminal Tribunal, 134 International law, 188
Intoxication, as mitigating factor, 209 Inuit, 47, 320
Inuria, 64
Ireland, confession, 169
Irish Republican Army, 163
Islam, 14, 16, 22, 154
behavioral codes, 177
and idolatry, 183
Islamic law, 17, 56, 151
death penalty, 131
and debt, 23
Islamic world, and punishments, 115
Italy, 53, 128
police, 263
Renaissance, 41, 52
Ius, 42
Jackson, Andrew, 97
James, Jesse, 260
James I, 80, 83, 103, 157
Japan, 17, 45, 53, 80
conviction rates, 265
policing, 295
Japanese American internment,
296
Jesuits, 79, 296
Jewish law, 54, 55, 64, 70
Jewish people, 345
ancient, 14, 16
and blushing, 230 covenant with God, 42 expulsion of, 120 and lynching, 105
Orthodox, 175
and other gods, 152, 154
saved by holy sin, 210 Judaism, 44, 154
holy sin, 210
monotheism, 159
Judges, lay, 48
July Monarchy, France, 161
Jupiter, 152
Juries, 20, 46, 67
development of, 275-276
grand, 69
growth of, 69
Russia, 273 self-informing, 69
Jury nullification, 146-147, 195,
266
Justinian, code of, 62
Digest, 111
Kant, Immanuel, 18, 60, 109, 111, 115, 128, 179, 186, 210, 336
and morality, 164
Karet, 118
Kelsen, Hans, 186 Kennedy, John F., 90 assassination, 94
Kent, 43, 55, 130
Kentucky, 205
and duels, 103
Kevorkian, Jack, 195 Kidnapping, 42 Kin, and state, 320
as enforcing law, 16, 17
Kinsey Report, 21
Kirkup, James, 183
Koban, 295
Kurdish independence fighters, 122
Labor, forced, 114, 126
hard, 119
in prison, 137
Labor relations, 23
Landesverrat, 94
Lansman, 259
Larceny. See Theft
Larson, John, 231
Lateran Council, Fourth, 150, 166, 168 Latino offenders, 351
Law
ancient Greece, 54, 55
biblical, 59
of contract, 188
cuneiform, 59
early development of, 48 growing role of, 338-340, 342-344 and morality, 186-194 of negligence, 188
pre-historic, 321
of the sea, 194 talionic, 54, 108, 128
Law enforcement, popularity of,
145
Legal goods, 35
Legal impossibility, 222 Legalism, China, 199, 351
Legal personality, 31
Legal realism, 186
Leges Henrici Primi, 212 Lenin, Vladimir, 121, 176
Lenocinium, 65
Lese-majeste, 161
Lettres de cachet, 254
Leumund, 229
Lex Julia, 154
Lex Quisquis, 81
Lex talionis, 50. See also Law,
talionic
Liability law, 28
Libel, 16, 25, 31, 33, 42
collective, 183
per se, 347
Lie detection, 230
Life sentences, 114, 123
Liszt, Franz von, 237
Locke, John, 58, 111, 186, 210
and atheism, 184
and morality, 164
and sin, 180
Locks, 27, 287
Loitering, 30, 216, 223, 234, 296 Lombroso, Cesare, 2, 206, 227, 229, 231
London, 258
police, 261, 262
London Bridge, 74
Looting, 147
Louis XIV, 103, 234, 261
Louis XV, 272
Louis XVI, 88, 266
Louis-Philippe, 98, 161
Luther, Martin, 42, 156, 160, 170, 323
Lynch, Charles, 105
Lynching, 105-106
Macauley, Thomas Babbington,
193
Madagascar Plan, 121
Magic. See Witchcraft
Magistrates' courts, Britain, 21
Magna Carta, 85, 86, 127
Mail fraud, 203
Mala fama, 70, 229
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 321
Malum in se, 188, 209, 214
Malum prohibitum, 188
Mandatory sentencing, 115, 238
Mann Act, 1910 (US), 28
Manslaughter, 49, 50
Maoism, 106
Marechaussee, 256, 261, 348
Marital rape, 17, 100
Marranos, 165
Marriage, 43
determined by parents, 100
Marrow, Ann, 202
Marx, Karl, 176, 318, 352
Marxism, and crime, 206
Mary, Queen, 68, 85
Massachusetts, 26, 76, 128, 157,
200
adultery, 187
and blasphemy, 182
and duels, 103
Mass trials, totalitarianism, 131
Mather, Cotton, 63
Maximilian, Emperor, 156
Medicis, 271
Melanesia, 323
Mennonites, 175, 323
Mens rea, 140, 207-208, 209, 241 Merovingians, 259
kings, 60
law, 52
Mesopotamia, 14, 40
Metropolitan Police Act, 1829
(London), 270 Middle Ages, 17, 27 Middle East, executions, 115 Militant democracy, 92 Military, compared to police, 348 mercenary, 293
Mill, John Stuart, 184, 201, 240
Ming empire, 75 Minimum sentences, mandatory, 115 Minorities, ethnic
and police, 257
and prison, 351 Misophonia, 329 Misprision of treason, 35 M'Naghten rule, 208 Monarchs, dangers to, 75 Money laundering, 27, 34 Monogamy, 190 Monopolies, 23, 28 Monopoly on violence, state, 50, 145 Monotheism, 41, 152, 155
moral codes, 177
Montesquieu, C.-L., 18, 79, 110, 180, 186 Morality, 23, 44, 164, 324
as base of society, 58
and contract, 188
enforcement of, 173, 184 and law, 186-187, 189, 191 policed by state, 174-175 relativity of, 187 and religion, 182 separate from religion, 179 and sin, 179-180
Moral turpitude, 188 More, Thomas, 159 Moriscos, 121, 165 Mormons, 175, 182, 183, 190 Moses, 41, 63
Motorists. See Drivers
Motor vehicles. See Automobiles Movement, freedom of, 284 Mugshots, 283 Multiculturalism, 31
and social control, 341 Municipalities, 31 Murder. See Homicide Murdrum, 56 Muslims
as minority in Europe, 183 suicide by murder, 113 Mussolini, Benito, 121 Mutilation, 19, 20, 55, 117
and consent, 101 punishments, 114
Napoleon, 89, 261, 262, 272, 304 Napoleon III, 98, 161, 272 National guard, 263 Nationalism, 163
Nation-state, 27
and banishment, 118 Native Americans
expulsion of, 121 and lynching, 105 Natural law, 22, 85, 91, 179, 186, 187 Natural rights, 186 Nature, as plaintiff, 32
Nazis, 79, 121, 134, 147, 193, 200, 205, 287, 318
and attempted crime, 220
and police, 263 Nazism, 37 Necromancy, 157 Necrophilia, 24 Negligence, 241-243 New Caledonia, 120, 143 New Jersey, 103, 296 New South Wales, 114, 120 New York, 104, 123
police, 262
Nicea, Council of, 155, 156
Nicholas I, 271
Nicholas I, Montenegrin prince,
51
Nicodemites, 165
Nightwalkers, 296
North, US, 141, 205
Norway, 45, 53
death penalty, 134
government in exile, 205
Novatian schismatics, 156
Nuremberg, 219
trial, 134
Oaths, 32, 45, 67
as preventive self-policing, 291
Oedipus Rex, 42, 62
Offending, reasons for, 206-207
Offense, as a harm, 185
Old Testament, 42, 44, 51, 54, 59, 61, 62,
79, 176, 213, 300.
See also Bible; Christianity;
Ten Commandments
banishment, 119
Cain and Abel, 15, 79, 119
David and Goliath, 51, 102
death penalty, 131
Saul, 51, 79
Yahweh, 15
Omission, crimes of, 225
Omniscience, divine, 164
Oral copulation. See Rape
Ordeals, 32, 45-46, 67, 166, 168, 275
Order, preserving, 23
Ordonnance de Blois, 221
Orsini, Felice, 98
Ostracism, 100, 118
Outlawry, 118
Overcriminalization, 33, 38
Ovid, 120
Pacification. See State, disarming function
Pagans, and sin, 157
Pakistan, executions, 115
Palestine, 45
British mandate, 88, 121
Paley, William, 199
Panhandling, 30
Panopticon principle, 164, 315
Pantheism, 41
Papacy, 75
Pardons, 77, 214, 266, 312
Paris, 103, 291
police, 258, 261, 269
Parlement of Paris, 45, 127
Parliament, 43
Parole, 144, 237, 312
reduction of, 115
Parricide, 70, 80, 89, 118, 132, 203
Pashukanis, Evgeny, 130
Passports, 284
domestic, 121
Paterfamilias, 30, 99
Patrick, Saint, 162
Paul I, 277
Peace,
disturbing, 17, 25
of gods, 42 medieval, 52, 65, 291
Peasant revolts, 91
Pedophilia, 24, 34, 110, 192, 305-309
Peel, Robert, 268
Peine forte et dure, 124, 143
Penal code, 21, 22, 34
Bavaria, 1810, 113
Bavaria, 1813, 180
Belgium, 1867, 89
China, 1908, 141
France, 1791, 89, 93, 136, 141, 161
France, 1810, 89, 93, 120, 217,
296
France, 1994, 97
Germany, 1870, 193 growth of, 22, 38
India, 193
Italy, 1889, 215
Japan, 89
Prussia, 74, 304
Prussia, 1851, 205
Tuscany, 1786, 135, 201
US, 22
Penal colonies, 114
Soviet, 121
Penalties, fixed, 48
Penitential of Ecgberht, 209
Penitential of Theodore, 209
Penna, Lucas de, 214, 219 Pennsylvania, 58
and blasphemy, 182
Perduellio, 81
Perjury, 14, 16, 32, 40, 42, 46, 57, 166, 174, 193
Personality, rights of, 31
Peterloo massacre, 175, 262
Peter the Great, 103, 203
Philby, Harold, 94
Philippe IV, 80
Phillimore, Walter, 182
Philo of Alexandria, 58
Phishing, 3
Photography, and crime, 280 Phrenology, 229
Pickpocketing, 27
Pillory, 205
Pinkertons, 260, 270
Plato, 14, 59, 70, 112, 118, 158, 188, 236, 276
and animals, 212
and fines, 129
Guardians, 287
law, intent, 213
and parricide, 203
Plea bargains, 343
Plessis-Mornay, Phillipe du, 85 Plethysmographs, 230
Poaching, 17, 194
Poland, 69, 128
Police
arms, 263-264
and arrests, 267
China, 250, 254
citizens' encounters with, 2 communications, 274 as deterrent, 293
England, 253
ethnic minorities, 2, 256, 257
London, 20, 250, 256, 268, 292, 293 New York, 250
Paris, 119 plainclothes, 293 political, 267
powers of, 33, 248, 268-269 private, 259-260
Prussia, 250 rule of law, 254
Russia, 252 secret, 270-273 states, 248 uniforms, 253, 293, 294 volunteer, 258
Policing, 5, 47 administrative, 292 etymology, 247 expansion of, 348 911-style, 294 supernatural, 44 zero-tolerance, 29, 294, 349
Political crime, 161-162
Political dissidents, 153
Polizei, 291-292
Polizeiwissenschaft, 248
Pollution, 57
Pollution theory of crime, 108, 174, 191,
192
Polygamy, 173, 189
Polygraph, 231
Polytheism, 14, 40, 152, 177
Ponet, John, 85
Poor, and the law, 28
Poor-law, England, 201
Poor Law Commission, 201
Populism, 342
Pornography, 8, 29 child, 305-309 virtual, 306-309
Posse comitatus, 258
Posse Comitatus Act, 1878 (US),
262
Possession offenses, 216
Potwaris, India, 259
Pound, Roscoe, 337
Power, Foucauldian, 317
Prediction
on basis of past acts, 235
of offending, 230 sociological methods, 232 statistical, 296
Pretrial detention, 302
Pretrial release, 301 Preventing crime based on past behavior, 227
and policing, 289-305
and state, 198
Prevention of Crime Act, 1908 (England), 298
Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (England), 283
Preventive detention, 224, 239 universal, 303, 304
Preventive law, 35
Preventive orders, civil, 302 Preventive sentencing, 300, 301
Price fixing, 28, 191 Primogeniture, 100, 191 Prison, 6, 23, 114, 134-137 alternatives to, 144 debtors, 135 diets, 144 juveniles, 144 labor, 144 maximum security, 137, 144 number of citizens in, 2, 349 Philadelphia system, 137 rehabilitation, 236-237 as substitute for death, 143 US, 115
Prison-industrial complex, 137 Privacy, protection of, 286 Private offenses, 63 Private sphere, 16, 26, 28, 29 Probation, 144, 237, 240 Procureur du roi, 68
Procuring, 65 Professions, licensed, 31 Profiling, 235, 297 Prohibition, 195 Project Exile, 123 Prometheus, 41
Property, 30, 32 intellectual, 31 right to, 18
Prosecution
discretion, 275 public, 17, 67 Prosecutors, 21 Prostitutes, 234
China, 126
as informers, 276
Prostitution, 23, 29, 125, 185
PROTECT Act, 2003 (US), 306
Protestantism, 153, 166
and idolatry, 183
sects, 153
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 190,
351
Proxy behaviors, 34
Prussia, 336
and death penalty, 141
General Code, 1794, 251 penal code, 80 police, 259, 271 and torture, 140
Public assembly, 33
Public crimes, 60-62, 64, 65, 174
Public drunkenness, 299
Public health, 23, 317
and law, 300
Publicity, rights of, 31
Public order, 16
Public urination, 27, 30 Punishment
collective, 289-290
of masochists, 113 moderation of, 5, 18, 115, 266 postmortem, 14 privatizing, 204 severity of, 206 by victims, 48
Puritans, 63, 157, 159, 181
Qing dynasty, China, 141
Quakers, 58, 157, 181
Quarantine, 300
avoiders, 147
Quetelet, Adolphe, 232
Quran, 22
Ranters, 181
Rape, 3, 29, 62, 147, 305
marital, 346
statutory, 28 virtual, 307
Reagan, Ronald, 157, 209
Reasonableness, as legal concept,
188
Rechtsstaat, 33
Recidivism, 202, 227-228, 233, 239, 297-298, 304, 349
and age, 233
tracking, 282
Reckless endangerment, 243
Recusancy, 160
Red flag orders, 299
Reform Act 1835 (England), 20 Reformation, 75, 85, 140, 156
and confession, 169, 170
Regicide, 75
and treason, 87
Register of Distinct Marks, England, 282 Regulars, 104
Regulation, 33
as distinct from crimes, 22 Regulators, 104
Rehabilitation, 112, 115, 235-239 and prison, 137
Reichslandfriede, 142
Reincarnation, 14
Religion, 25
Axial, 25, 152, 154
control of behavior, 176-177
edicts, 13, 16, 22 offenses, 16, 46 separate from state, 22
Representative government
and crime, 18
and dissent, 160
and moderation of punishment, 145 Repressive tolerance, 315 Republics, and crime, 18
Reputation, 31, 45
as basis for prosecution, 229
and compurgators, 229
and policing, 292
Responsibility, for crime, 207
Restitution, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 212 and fines, 127
Restorative justice, 56, 115, 353 Restraining orders, 299
Retaliation, 58 Retribution, 14, 44, 58, 107-108, 238 Retributionism, 111-113
Retributive justice, 311, 312 Revolutions of 1848, 261 Rewards, 278
Richard II, 84, 91, 220 Right to remain silent, 159 Riots, 42, 334 in legal sense, 210 and treason, 76
Risk, harm of, 243 Risk averaging, 317 Roma, 23, 234 Roman Empire. See also Holy Roman
Empire conversion to Christianity, 62, 155,
159, 236
and pagans, 157 Roman gods, 40 Roman law, 18, 19, 45, 48, 54, 55, 58, 65,
67, 68, 95, 111, 118 attempts, 211 beheading, 142 children, 100 deterrence, 132 duel, 102 evidence, 279 evidence of character, 228 inquisitorial aspect, 229 insanity, 208 negligence, 243 profane vs. sacral criminal law, 42 restitution, 130 theological offenses, 158 treason in, 82
Roman republic, 63, 92
Rome
ancient, 14, 17, 30 police, 257 and religion, 152, 179
Rose, Nikolas, 337, 340
Rosenberg, Ethel, 94
Rosenberg, Julius, 94
Rothman, David, 338
Royal Society for the Protection of
Cruelty to Animals, 269
Rubin, Jerry, 342
Rugeverfahren, 229
Rule of law, 33
Rushdie, Salman, 183
Russia, 69, 104
compensation forbidden in,
132
police, 258, 259, 274 whipping, 128
Russian revolution, 1917, 105
Rwanda, genocide, 134
Sabbatarian law, 190, 256
Sabbath, 24
Sabbatian heresies, 155, 179
Sachsenspiegel, 66
Sacral offenses, 42
Sacrifice, 62
human, 42
Sacrilege, 24, 175
Sade, Marquis de, 99
Safe sex, 330
Saints, cult of, 153
Salian Franks, law, 55
Salic code, 75
Salvation by good works, 153
Samosud, 104
Samurai, Japan, 259, 323
Sanctuary cities, 122
Santa Hermandad, 52
Santeria, 182
Sartorial regulations, 23, 24,
346
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von, 186
Sbirri, 259
Scandinavian law, and intent,
214
Scholasticism, 179
Schooling, compulsory, 3
Schultheiss, 259
Schwerer Kerker, 143
Scientology, 157-158
Scolding, 25, 296
Scotland, 41, 45, 50, 53, 104, 200
drawing and quartering, 203
prison, 137
Scott, James, 322
Seatbelts, 329
Second Amendment, 313
Securities fraud, 28, 192
Sedition, 78, 94. See also Treason Seduction, 42, 80
Self-control. See Self-discipline Self-defense, 49, 101, 269
Self-discipline, 7, 8, 10, 38, 317, 318, 319, 335-336
Self-domestication, 325
Self-help, 48-49
as enforcing law, 16, 17
Self-maiming, 60
Self-policing, 255
Self-reporting, 255
Sentences
discretionary, 237
indeterminate, 23, 227, 304
Sentencing rallies, China, 200
Seppuku, 323
Servetus, Michael, 156, 165
Seville, 56, 165, 213
Sex, 8, 24, 28, 330
and law, 345
mercenary, 101
Sex crimes, 216, 305-309
Sex offenders, 239, 302
banishment, 123
registries, 117, 200, 255
Sex robots, 307
Sexual assault. See Rape
Sex workers. See Prostitutes; Prostitution
Shame, 20
Shame punishments, 114, 117, 200-201, 236
Sharia law, 51, 54, 61, 130. See also
Islamic law
debt, 137
intent, 213
Sharp, David, 193
Shays' Rebellion, 76
Sheriffs, 125
Shiites, 224
Shivarees, 104
Shoplifting, 17, 27, 61
Sicherungsverwahrung, 239, 302
Silin, 289
Simony, 167
Sin, 14, 15, 22, 39, 44, 45, 62, 65, 164, 173, 179, 240
as disobeying God, 153
as distinct from crime, 45, 47, 59 sexual, 169
Sindaci, 277
Sisyphus, King, 164
Slander. See Libel
Slavery, 22, 65
voluntary, 101
Slaves, 99
evidence, 166
fines, 129 punishment of, 142 testimony, 165 unable to be fined, 128
Sleeping, as crime, 24, 25
Smith, Adam, 204, 292
Smoking, ban of, 326
Smuggling, 2, 145, 172, 194 Snowden, Edward, 210
Social contract, 315, 319
Social control, 335-340, 352
and humor, 347 informal, 11, 341, 342
Social crimes, 194
Social Democrats, Germany, 33, 263
Social discipline. See Social control
Social engineering, 226, 318 Socialism, and law, 176
Socialization, 11, 38, 323, 326
Socinians, 181
Sociopaths, 230
Socrates, 122, 158, 323. See also Plato
Sodomy, 22, 24, 62, 141, 305
Solicitation, 217, 221. See also Inchoate crime
Solicitators. See Accomplices
Solitary confinement, 201, 236
Solon, 48, 64, 66, 99
South, US, 4, 103, 105, 126, 137
death penalty, 133
South Tirol, Landesverordnung, 91
Soviet Union, 121
mass trials, 171
police, 171, 176, 272
state property, 190
torture, 170
treason, 74
Spain, 76
pardons, 266
police, 258, 263
Spanish flu, 327
Sparta, 42
Special Branch, England, 271
Specific performance, 130
Speeding, 284
tickets, 126, 129
Speed limits, 34
Spitting, regulation of, 327
Spousal abuse, 100. See also
Domestic violence
Stalin, Joseph, 21, 97, 171, 318, 352
Stand-your-ground laws, 50
Star Chamber, 221
Stasi, East Germany, 277
State
disarming function, 7
earliest emergence of, 320-321 early history of, 332-333 enforcement of law, 16, 17
Europe, 321-322
expansion of, 324 monopoly on violence, 50, 145 power of, and crime, 19, 20 and violence, 331-334
warfare, 333
withering away of, 10, 176, 352 States of exception, 26
Status, as crime, 298-299
Statute of Apprentices, 1563 (England),
278
Statute of Winchester, 258, 287, 289
STD. See Venereal disease
Stephen, James Fitzjames, 184
Stolen goods, 216
Stoning, 63, 70, 100, 132
St. Petersburg, 105, 277, 287
Strangling, 142-143, 202
Strict liability, 211, 241-242
Suffragettes, 135, 161, 162
Suicide, 25, 58, 190
bombers, 224
by cop, 113
by murder, 113 prevented in order to execute, 132
Sumerian law, 55
Sumptuary laws, 23
Supernatural. See God(s)
Supreme Court
Israel, 88
US, 77, 96, 189, 302, 306, 307
Surete, 259
Sureties, 289-291, 312
and suffragettes, 162
Sussex, 16, 268
death penalty, 141
SWAT teams, 264
Swearing, 63
Sweden, 29, 113, 122
police, 259
Switzerland, 313, 351
and fines, 129
Sycophants, ancient Greece, 277
Syphilis. See Venereal disease
Syracuse, 220
Taboos, 14, 178
Tacitus, 42, 63
Talionic punishments, 114. See also, Law, talionic
Target hardening, 198, 207, 286-288, 295
Tariffs, 2, 194
Tax
avoidance, 190
declarations, 32 evasion, 174, 190, 194
fraud, 57
violations, 28
Taylor, John, 126, 181
Technology, and expansion of law, 27 Telepinus, Edict of, 51
Templars, 167
Ten Abominations, China, 221
Ten Commandments, 16, 178, 186, 207 Terror, French Revolution, 204 Terrorism, 26, 34
inchoate crime, 224 laws against, 224-225
Terrorism Act, 2006 (UK), 224 Terrorists, 163, 297
Islamic, 183
Theft, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 42, 63, 67, 211
cars, 288 changes in, 286 as public crime, 67
Theftbote, 60
Theocracy, 16, 24, 58, 176, 182 Theodosian Code, 266 Theognidean sylloge, 178
Thief takers, England, 259 Third degree, 168, 254
Third Department, Russia, 271 Third Republic, France, 89 Thirty-Nine Articles, 159 Thoughts, as object of law, 35-36
Three-strike laws, 4, 228, 233, 298 Tobacco use, 191
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 236, 343 Toilet training, 326-327
Tokyo Rose, 94
Torquemada, Tomas de, 150 Tort/crime distinction, 18, 57, 66,
189
Torture, 6, 19, 32, 110, 275 confession, 170 democracies and, 168 to discourage murder, 113 end of, 204 evidence, 166-168 forbidding of, 140 totalitarianism, 168 unreliable evidence, 279
Totalitarianism, 18, 26, 77, 92, 121, 161, 323
confession, 171
dissent, 160
mass trials, 131
Tough-on-crime agenda, 1
Toulouse, 249, 258
Trade law, 23
Traffic policing, 21, 27, 34
Transportation, 142, 147. See also Banishment
as punishment, 136
Transportation Security Administration, 287
Treachery, 97
Treason, 16, 26, 33, 42, 56, 60, 73-75
ancient China, 73, 83
ancient Greece, 78
as crime of citizens, 157
democracies, 78, 91, 95
like heresy, 154
high and petty, 82
intent, 210
popular sovereignty, 92-93 prosecutions, 77
Rome, 78
treason-felony, 96
Visigoths, 82
Treason Act 1351 (England), 76, 82, 88, 95, 217, 220
Treason Act 1495 (England), 90
Treason Act 1534 (England), 95
Trent, Council of, 102
Tresilian, Richard, 84
Trespass, 22, 216
nighttime, 219
Tresviri capitales, 257
Trial by battle, 102
Trinitarianism, 155, 181
Truancy, 30, 303
Tyburn Ticket, 204, 278
Tyrannicide, 75
Tz'u, Sung, 279
Ulpian, 213
Ulysses, 290
Unemployment, 23
increasing likelihood of offending,
110
Uniforms, police, 293-294
United Kingdom. See England
United Nations, 78, 163
United States, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 33, 36,
38. See also individual states
death penalty, 133
North, 141, 205
South, 4, 103, 105, 126, 137
West, 4, 104
United States Constitution, 73, 76, 93,
140
amendments, 127, 182, 313
and treason, 82
Unlawful assembly, 210
US Code, 32
US Model Penal Code, 209, 217, 243 attempts, 221 bribery, 215
US Uniform Commercial Code,
188
Usury, 16, 22, 42, 44
Utilitarian approach to justice,
107-109, 111
Utilitarianism, 312
and crime, 198
and prevention, 227
Utopias, 323, 351
Vaccination, 30, 58, 128, 300,
326
Vagrancy, 23, 25, 255 laws, 234
Valentinian III, 155
Vehm, 104
Vendetta, 53, 101
Vendicatori, 104
Venereal disease, 7-8, 29, 300
Vengeance, 16, 19, 44, 50, 51, 54, 57,
61-62
Venice, 63, 121, 277, 300
Verdachtsstrafe, 36, 167
Versailles, 103, 316
Vestal virgins, 179
Vicarious liability, 242
Vichy Republic, 93, 193
Victimless crime, 35, 175
Victoria, Queen, 88, 98, 209
Vidocq, Francois, 259
Vigilantism, 18, 100, 103-104, 259, 269, 290, 312
Violence
and human nature, 325
levels of, 38, 145, 331-332 monopoly of, 38, 313 in prehistory, 332
Virginia, 22, 151
Visigothic law, 65, 70
and intent, 220
Visigoths, 52, 84
Vodun, 157
Voltaire, 139, 179
and atheism, 184
Voodoo economics, 157
Waldensian sect, 156
War on drugs, 299, 346
Warring States, China, 51, 71 Washington, George, 152 Washington State, 205
Wazo, Bishop of Liege, 236
Weber, Max, 68, 322
Weimar Republic, 26, 89
Wen, Emperor, China, 142
Wergeld, 55, 124, 130
Wessex, 126, 214, 223, 228,
243
West, US, 4, 104
death penalty, 133
Whipping, 128, 202
Widowers and widows, 24, 42
Wihtred, 43
Wilhelm I, 98
Wiretapping, 278
Witchcraft, 15, 22, 25, 41, 42, 60
Witches, 157
Wite, 56
Wittfogel, Karl, 322
Wives, as property of husbands, 29, 99 Wolfenden Committee, 185
Women
emancipation, 100 legal status, 30 pregnant, 31 as property, 29, 99 and rape, 29 as victims, 31, 50
Women's movement, 191 Workhouses, 137, 142, 201
Workplace regulation, 23 World War I, 96
World War II, 94, 97, 134, 205 Wu, Emperor, China, 266
legal code, 131
Yanda campaigns, China, 206
Zadig (Voltaire), 179
Zevi, Sabbatai, 179
Zhou dynasty, China, 322
Zoning, 23