Inventing the Criminal: Sciences of Policing in Nineteenth-century Europe

Are police science and criminology simply a response to criminality? Or do they also help to invent the criminal?

Focussing on nineteenth-century Europe, this lecture answers those questions by showing how different models, techniques and debates in criminology and police science generated competing typologies of criminality and strategies for combatting it.

This is a free public lecture by Professor Jane Caplan, St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

There is no need to book in advance for this lecture. It runs on a first come first served basis.