Abstract
Crime and Royal Justice in Ancien Regime France: Modes of Analysis Research on crime and criminality in ancien regime France has long been dominated by the theoretical distinction between crimes against persons and crimes against property. According to the received doctrine, violence against persons is the characteristic form of criminal activity in primitive societies (in the case of France-feudal society), whereas crime against property (primarily theft) is most characteristic of bourgeois capitalist societies. Therefore, the argument runs, as a society modernizes, so too does its criminality modernize and evolve from violence to theft. The fundamental reason for this
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