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Vient de paraître:Neil Davie, Tracing the Criminal:The Rise of Scientific Criminology in Britain, 1860-1918, Oxford: BardwellPress, 2006.  304p. ISBN : 0-9548683-1-5.Voici le texte de la quatrième de couverture:Tracing the Criminal recounts the history of the emergence of 'scientific'criminology in Britain during the period 1860-1918. It shows how it developedfrom the prevalent view that criminals constituted a sub-category of the HumanRace who differed from the law-abiding majority in other ways than simply bytheir lawbreaking, and that those differences were accessible to scientificinvestigation.As a result, the criminal was increasingly seen as a geneticthreat to the wider population. Neil Davie's perceptive study explores the ideasand research of this era and examines the impact of the influential theories ofLombroso, Galton, Goring and others. As Professor Davie makes clear, the newinductive science of criminology sought not merely to describe criminals, butalso to explain them. What gripped the minds of a wide range of Victorians andEdwardians was thus not simply a taxonomic desire to pin a label on 'TheCriminal' and place him or her under a bell jar, but the urge to explore thevery springs of crime itself.L'introduction du livre (12 pages) est accessible en ligne sur le site del'éditeur: www.bardwell-press.co.uk.Neil DavieDépartement d'Etudes du Monde Anglophone,Université Lumière Lyon 2.