Please note that this is an indicative syllabus. The precise content will be negotiated between students and tutor each academic year to reflect student interests.

Archive workshops:

• Autumn term: Modern Records Centre (Howard League for Penal Reform materials)
• Spring term: Warwick Records Office (Quarter sessions materials)

Seminar topics:

• Introduction - historiography of prisons
• Institutions: prisons, workhouses, asylums
• Representations of crime: literature and the press
• Crime, metropole, empire: transportation
• Sex work and crime
• Juvenile delinquency
• Bad girls: femininity and crime
• Serial killers and moral panics
• Sedition, libel, protest: political crime
• Justice and humanitarian reform
• Upper class vs underclass criminality
• Policing and detection: from Peelers to Poirot?