The Social Construction of Crime in the Atlantic World

This project examines how the definitions of “crime,” “criminals,” “licit,” and “illicit behavior” were used in the 18th-century Atlantic World. For the purpose of this study, I used pirates as a case study. The findings in my research show that the ideas of crime came from Puritan economic and mora...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review

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