2014 saw the retirement from the editorial board of two of the founding members of Crime, histoire & sociétés/Crime, History & Societies. Pieter Spierenburg and Clive Emsley were both among the pioneers in the field of the history of crime and criminal justice. As many readers will know, their contributions to the field go well beyond their significance as prolific researchers and writers, Pieter with his ground breaking studies on the early modern carceral institutions : on violence, on masc..
