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Rezensierte Werke: Thomas Glyn Watkin, The Legal History of Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2007, X, 332 p., ISBN 978-0-7083-2064-8; Legal Wales: its Past, its Future. Essays dedicated to Professor Dafydd Jenkins on his ninetieth birthday, ed. by Thomas Glyn Watkin, Cardiff: Welsh Legal History Society 2001, XI, 181 p., ISBN 0-9541637-0-2; The Trial of Dic Penderyn and other Essays, ed. by Thomas Glyn Watkin, Cardiff: Welsh Legal History Society 2003, X, 196 p., ISBN 0-9541637-1-0; Y Cyfraniad Cymreig – Welsh Contributions to Legal Development, ed. by Thomas Glyn Watkin, Bangor: Welsh Legal History Society 2005, XI, 231 p., ISBN 0-9541637-2-9; Sir William Jones, An Essay of the Law of Bailments, 1781, ed. by David J. Ibbetson, Bangor: Welsh Legal History Society 2007, ISBN 0-9541637-3-7; Tair Colofn Cyfraith = The Three Columns of Law in Medieval Wales: Homicide, Theft and Fire, ed. by T.M. Charles-Edwards and Paul Russell, Bangor: Welsh Legal History Society 2007, ISBN 978-0-9541637-4-7; Sara Elin Roberts, The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2007, XV, 461 p., ISBN 978-0-7083-2107-2; Richard W. Ireland, A Want of Order…, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2007, XIII, 302 p., ISBN 978-0-7083-1945-1; Sharon Howard, Law and Disorder in Early Modern Wales: Crime and Authority in the Denbighshire Courts, c. 1660–1730, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2008, XXII, 295 p., ISBN 978-0-7083-1994-9

Rezensierte Werke: Gerhard Ammerer, Alfred Stefan Weiss (Hg.), Strafe, Disziplin und Besserung. Österreichische Zucht- und Arbeitshäuser von 1750 bis 1850, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2006, 287 S., ISBN 3-631-541136-8; Martina Henze, Strafvollzugsreformen im 19. Jahrhundert. Gefängniskundlicher Diskurs und staatliche Praxis in Bayern und Hessen-Darmstadt (Quellen und Forschungen zur hessischen Geschichte 135), Darmstadt, Marburg: Selbstverlag der Hessischen Historischen Kommission Darmstadt und der Historischen Kommision für Hessen 2003, 501 S., ISBN 3-88443-088-2; Lars Hendrik Riemer, Das Netzwerk der »Gefängnisfreunde« (1830–1872). Karl Josef Anton Mittermaiers Briefwechsel mit europäischen Strafvollzugsexperten, 2 Halbbde. (Studien zur euro­päischen Rechtsgeschichte 192.1 u. 192.2), Frankfurt a. M.: Klostermann 2005, XIV, XXX, 1908 S., ISBN 3-465-03405-8; Kai Naumann, Gefängnis und Gesellschaft. Freiheitsentzug in Deutschland in Wissenschaft und Praxis 1920–1960 (Forschungen zur Geschichte der Neuzeit: Marburger Beiträge 9), Berlin: Lit Verlag 2006, 335 S., ISBN 3-8258-9101-1; Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons. Legal Terror in Nazi Germany, New Haven, London: Yale University Press 2004, XV, 538 p., ISBN 0-300-10250-X; Nikolaus Wachsmann, Gefangen unter Hitler. Justizterror und Strafvollzug im NS-Staat, München: Siedler Verlag 2006, 622 S., ISBN 3-88680-828-9

This review article discusses studies on the history of crime and the criminal law in England and Ireland published during the last few years. These reflect the ›history of crime and punishment‹ as a more or less established sub-discipline of social history, at least in England, whereas it only really began to flourish in the german-speaking world from the 1990s onwards. By contrast, the legal history of the criminal law and its procedure has a strong, recently revived academic tradition in Germany that does not really have a parallel in the British Isles, whose legal scholars still evidence their traditional reluctance to confront penal subjects.