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  • J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror
  • Alan Brooke and David Brandon, Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree
  • J. S. Cockburn, ‘Punishment and Brutalization in the English Enlightenment’, Law and History Review, 12 (1994), pp. 155–179.
  • Simon Devereaux, ‘Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation and Convict Resistance in London, 1789’, Law and History Review, 25 (2007).
  • V. A. C Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
  • Phil Handler, ‘Forgery and the End of the 'Bloody Code'; in Early Nineteenth-Century England’, Historical Journal, 48:3 (2005), pp. 683–702.
  • Thomas Laqueur, ‘Crowds, Carnival and the State in English Executions, 1604-1868’, in A. L. Beier, David Cannadine and James M. Rosenheim (eds), The First Modern Society
  • Peter Linebaugh, ‘The Tyburn Riot Against the Surgeons’, in D. Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G Rule, E. P. Thompson and Cal Winslow (eds), Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Lynn MacKay, ‘Refusing the Royal Pardon: London Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and the Press, 1789’, London Journal, 28 (2003), pp. 21–37.
  • R. McGowen, ‘The Body and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England’, Journal of Modern History, 59 (1987), pp. 651–79.
  • Randall McGowen, ‘The Changing Face of God's Justice: The Debates over Divine and Human Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England’, Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988), pp. 63–98.
  • R. McGowen, ‘From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution’, Past and Present, 165 (1999), pp. 107–140.
  • Greg T. Smith, ‘"I Could Hang Anything You Can Bring Before Me" : England's Willing Executioners In 1883’, in Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths (eds), Penal practice and culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English