Foreword by Martin Wiener 1. Introduction: Do you have Plane-spotters in New Zealand? Issues in Comparative Crime History at the Turn of Modernity by Barry S. Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall 2. It's a Small World After All? Reflections on Violence in Comparative Perspectives by John Carter Wood 3. Moral Panics and Violent Street Crime 1750-2000: A Comparative Perspective by Peter King 4. 'The Great Murder Mystery' or Explaining Declining Homicide Rates by Maria Kaspersson 5. Strangers, Mobilisation and the Production of Weak Ties: Railway Traffic and Violence in Nineteenth-century South West Germany by Susanne Karstedt 6. 'Inventing' the Juvenile Delinquent in Nineteenth-century Europe by Heather Shore 7. 'Scoundrels and Scallywags, and Some Honest Men ...' Memoirs and the Self-image of French and English Policemen c.1870-1939 by Paul Lawrence 8. Policing the Seaside Holiday: Blackpool and San Sebastian from the 1870s to the 1930s by John K. Walton 9. 'The Greatest Efficiency': British and American Military Law, 1866-1918 by Gerry Oram 10. The Decline and Renaissance of Shame in Modern Penal Systems by John Pratt 11. Practical and Philosophical Dilemmas in Cross-cultural Research: The Future of Comparative Crime History? by Bronwyn Morrison