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History and Crime
This lively and accessible text provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. It explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of …
Ethics of Spying
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical—the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that …
Victorian Convicts
What was life like in the Victorian underworld - who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they …
Comparative Histories of Crime
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: …
Monsters, Law, Crime
Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and …
Criminal Classes
We explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking London’s streets to …
Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940
This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early …
Criminal Children
A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens. How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the …
Comparative Histories of Crime
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: …
Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850
Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early …
Serious Offenders
Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals examines the persistent offending careers of men and women operating in northwest England between the 1840s and 1940s. …
Penal Servitude
Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment - …