‘Crime, the Law, and the State’: University of Essex/Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Comparative History Summer School, 6–10 July 1992.

Information about several papers discussed at the comparative history summer school on crime, law and the state is presented. Leading historians presented a range of papers of which arouse a great deal of interest among participants. Comparison was made between England and the continent whose legal and judicial development took different directions from the early Middle Ages onwards. Catherine Crawford describes how centralized and stable government in England assist the adoption of a system.