| Review | Journal of Social History, 41.1

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Crime et culture au XIXe siècle. By Dominique Kalifa (Paris: Perrin, 2005. pp.).
The question of crime obsessed nineteenth-century French society. This statement is Dominque Kalifa's starting point for Crime et culture au XIX^e siècle, a collection of previously published articles that establishes that nineteenth-century crime has also been Kalifa's own professional obsession. The book is the product of careful thought and wide reading in a variety of primary sources (feuilletons, popular novels, broadsheets, police memoirs, and newspapers from both Paris and the provinces). Consequently, it offers a detailed examination of the place of crime in popular culture, as well as the role that culture played in the perception, policing, and punishing of crime.	1
The fifteen chapters of the book are organized into three thematic parts. Part one explores classic figures of Parisian crime including the young delinquent known popularly as the "apache," the police detective (with special focus on the literary figure of Victor Hugo's Inspector Javert), and the so-called "dangerous classes." Uniting these diverse figures is the Parisian landscape and its role in what Kalifa identifies as the social imaginary—the popular understanding of the topography and criminal composition of vice and delinquency as derived from popular representations of crime. Particularly in the last third of the nineteenth century, as the effects of Hausmannization dramatically altered the social landscape of Paris, Kalifa shows how depictions of crime in "dime" novels, serials, and police memoirs affected both popular and elite appraisals of crime realities and imagined crime.	. . .

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