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Shame, Blame, and Culpability
This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence …
Public Indecency in England 1857-1960
Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour in public by legal and legislative means through the …
Processing Criminal Justice Between the Wars
How did the institutions of the criminal justice system deal with the challenges and practical problems in its processes, both new and rediscovered, during the inter-war years? …
Private Security and the Modern State
Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested …
Parricide and Violence against Parents
Parricide and Violence Against Parents takes a historical and criminological approach to the research on parricide and violence against parents, placing the research in the context …
‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948
This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division …
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-century Britain
Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed – it was an issue …
Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain
This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to …
Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors
Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to ‘historical’ or ‘non-recent’ child sexual abuse …
The Politics of Penal Reform
In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the …
Policing Women
Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women’s experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the …
Policing Suspicion
Policing Suspicion is an innovative examination of policing practices and the impact of these on patterns of arrest and prosecution in London, 1780-1850. The work establishes and …