Recommended Book for Purchase

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900

Further Reading

• K Chesney, The Victorian Underworld
• Carolyn Conley, The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent
• Andy Croll, 'Who's afraid of the Victorian underworld?'. The Historian, 84 (2004)
• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900
• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in Twentieth Century England
• Clive Emsley, 'Historical perspectives on crime', in Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan, and Robert Reiner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
• Clive Emsley, Filling in, adding up, moving on; Criminal Justice History in contemporary Britain', Crime, History and Societies, 9 (2005), pp. 117–138
• V. A. C. Gattrell, 'Crime, authority and the policeman state' in F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), Cambridge Social History of Britain, vol 3
• V. Gattrell, ‘Crime, Authority and the Policeman State’, in John Muncie, Eugene McLaughlin and Mary Langan (eds), Criminological Persepctives: A Reader
• Barry S. Godfrey and Paul Lawrence, Crime and Justice, 1750-1950
• Drew Gray, London's Shadows (2010)
• Michael Ignatieff, ‘The Ideological Origins of the Penitentiary’, in Mike Fitzgerald, Gregor McLennan and Jennie Pawson, Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory
• Peter King, ‘Locating Histories of Crime: a Bibliographical Study’, British Journal of Criminology, 39 (1999), pp. 161-74
• Peter King, Crime and law in England, 1750-1850: remaking justice from the margins
• Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion, Law and Social Relations in England 1740-1820
• John Lea, Crime and Modernity: Continuities in Left Realist Criminology
• R.M. Morris, ‘ “Lies, damned lies and criminal statistics”: Reinterpreting the Criminal statistics of England and Wales’,Crime, Histoire et Sociétés/Crime, History and Societies, 5, 1 (2001) pp. 111-27.
• David Philips, Crime and authority in Victorian England
• Philip Rawlings, Crime and Power: a History of Criminal Justice, 1688-1998
• P. Rock, ‘Victims, Prosecutors and the State in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 4 (2004), pp. 331-54
• Heather Shore, 'Crime, policing and punishment' in Chris Williams (ed.), Companion to Nineteenth-century Britain
• Heather Shore, ‘Undiscovered Country: Towards a History of the Criminal Underworld’, Law, Crime and History, 1 (2007)
• Roger Swift, Behaving badly? : Irish migrants and crime in the Victorian city
• David Taylor, Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750-1914
• H. Taylor, ‘Rationing Crime: the Political Economy of Criminal Statistics since the 1850s’, Economic History Review, 3 (1998)
• Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in late Victorian London
• Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State
• J. K. Walton, M. Blinkhorn, C. Pooley, D. Tidswell, and M. J. Winstanley, 'Crime, migration and social change in north-west England and the Basque country', British Journal of Criminology, 39 (1999)
• Martin Wiener, Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914
• Chris A. Williams, 'Counting crimes or counting people: some implications of mid-nineteenth century British police returns',Crime, History and Societies, 4 (2000), pp. 77–93.
• Lucia Zedner, Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England