Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700—1800

The book both gives an overview of current scholarship on 18th-century Istanbul and Ottoman law that is accessible to readers from other fields and contributes new insights based on original research in little-used sources, including records of arrests by city police officials, galley service records, and prison registers. The large non-Muslim population and the presence of European ambassadors complicated attempts to prohibit alcohol consumption and resulted in semiofficial zones of toleration; again, the situation differed greatly in many other parts of the empire. [...]the borrowing is selective, and there are some aspects of the modern understanding of crime that she has left out: principally, what we would call white-collar crime committed by businessmen and government officials.