Criminal accusation political rationales and socio-legal practices

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accusation : landscapes of exclusion -- Apparatuses of criminal accusation -- Avowal and criminal accusation -- The violent rhetoric of accusation : Cicero and the Marcus Ameleus Scaurus case -- Cultural grammers of accusation : Thomas of Monmouth's blood libel accusations -- Creating crime : accusatory entryways to criminal justice -- The lore of criminal accusation -- Criminal justice and Cape law's persons -- Forget crime : accusation, governance, and criminology -- The emrgence of habitual criminals in 19th century Britain : implications for criminology -- The subjects of criminal identification.