El crimen como objeto de investigación histórica

Abstract

In this article we try to synthesize the contribution of the modern European historiography to the history of crime, a subject that many historians only paid attention from the 60s in the 20th century. This way, we analyse the first steps given by the French School of Annals and the English History From Below in the research of the preindustrial crime to proceed to briefly examine the subjects which have gradually captured the attention of crime experts and the fields we still have to examine. We make a special mention to the Spanish and Galician case to finish with some general thoughts arround the use of judicial archives as a source of study of criminality.