Pieter Spierenburg
Born 1948
PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1978
Affiliation
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Professor of Historical Criminology, also member of the History Faculty
Visiting Professorships
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (History), Spring 2001
University of California at Berkeley (Law), Spring 2006
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Selected Publications
Spierenburgh, Peter (2008) A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. Cambridge: Polity.
Spierenburgh, Peter (2004) Written in Blood: Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Spierenburgh, Peter (1998) De Verbroken Betovering: Mentaliteit en Cultuur in Preïndustrieel Europa. Hilversum: Verloren.
Spierenburgh, Peter (1991) The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and their Inmates in Early Modern Europe. New Brunswick, London: Rutgers University Press (reprinted by Amsterdam University Press 2007).
Spierenburgh, Peter (1984) The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (reprinted as paperback 2008).