Cultural histories of crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000 / edited by Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup and Claus Bundgard Christensen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : including a short history of Denmark / Tyge Krogh -- The construction of crime and criminals -- "When hell became too small" : constructing witchcraft in post-reformation Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- The rise and fall of religious crimes and punishments / Tyge Krogh -- Regulating eighteenth-century households : offences against the fourth and the six commandments as criminal behaviour / Nina Javette Koefoed -- Child sexual abuse within the family : the construction of the victim and offender, 1933 to 1967 / Mette Seidelin -- Traces of a panic : the making and unmaking of a paedophile Minority in denmark in the twentieth century / Peter Edelberg -- Criminal cultures -- Maritime cultures of crime, 1600 to 1800 / Johan Heinsen -- Larcenous soldiers : crime and criminal cultures in Copenhagen in the first half of the eighteenth century / Tyge Krogh -- Marital violence in a Danish rural society, 1750 to 1850 / Asbj�rn Romvig Thomsen -- Morality and crime in Denmark during the Second World War / Sofie Lene Bak -- From organised crime to white-collar crime : the black market in Denmark during the Second World War / Claus Bundg�ard Christensen -- Controlling crime -- Life and law in northern Jutland in the seventeenth century / Jakob �rnbjerg -- Using the police to fight crime in Copenhagen, 1682 to 1793 / J�rgen M�uhrmann-Lund -- The first Danish secret police, 1800 to 1848 / Karl Peder Pedersen -- Curing criminal thoughts : from religious conversion to cognitive therapy in prison / Peter Scharff Smith -- Contributors -- Index.