Autobiography: A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published - Softcover

Vidocq

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461365952 ISBN 13: 9780461365955

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Autobiography: A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published by Vidocq is a translated installment of Vidocq's memoirs that presents the career of the famed 19th?century French police reformer through episodic chapters and analytic commentary. The excerpt, drawn from Memoirs of Vidocq, Volume IV, surveys the criminal underworld of Napoleonic Paris, detailing the numerous classes of thieves and the techniques they use. It catalogs thieves by class (cambrioleurs, nourrisseurs, detourneurs, ramastiques, escarpes, rouleurs, etc.), describing their dress, habits, psychological traits, and the social networks that sustain crime, as well as the methods police employ to counter them. Interwoven are vivid anecdotes—Adele D'Escars, Capdeville, the Duc de Modène, and other infamous figures—alongside musings on punishment, surveillance, and the ethics of justice. The work blends reportage, social critique, and narrative episodes to illuminate policing, criminality, and reform in early 19th?century Paris, making it a seminal resource for criminology and the history of policing.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461365952
• ISBN 13: 9780461365955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305