Eric A. Johnson is professor of history at Central Michigan University, a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and a former member of Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. He is the author of Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871–1914 and The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages.
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