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Crime and Society in England : 1750 - 1900

ISBN: 9781405858632 | 140585863X

Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 4/20/2010

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 draws on recent research to assess the changes in the understanding of crime, policing, the courts and penal sanctions in England as the country industrialised and urbanised during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This updated fourth edition takes into account recent scholarship and offers increased coverage of gender and crime, and crime in the media (including visual representations).This text is suitable for undergraduate courses in modern English history and criminology courses in law departme... MOREnts.

A new edition of the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible history of crime in eighteenth and nineteenth century England. Explores the value of criminal statistics, the significance of contemporary notions of class and gender in understanding and formulating the image of the criminal Describes developments in policing and the shifting ideas that led to a decline in corporate and capital punishments and an increasing focus on the prison Challenges the view that crime can be attributed to the behaviour of a criminal class, and the ideas that crime patterns can be explained simply in terms of the trade cycle Examines changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising society Includes a new section on Crime in the Media, with visual representations

"A thoroughly learned, clear-eyed and engaging read.?

Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times, on The Great British Bobby (2009)

?Crime is one aspect of the world that seems to get inexorably worse as you get older?.But how do the teenagers outside your local corner shop really compare with those in times past? Go to Crime and Society in England: 1750-1900 by Clive Emsley; you might even take a copy to the corner shop and instigate an edifying debate.?

David Mattin, The Times

"This is an outstanding work [?] written by one of the most respected and authoritative historians in the field."

Dr Louise Jackson, Edinburgh University

Acknowledged as one of the best introductions to the history of crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,� Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 examines the developments in policing, the courts, and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. The book challenges the old but still influential idea that crime can be attributed to the behaviour of a criminal class and that changes in the criminal justice system were principally the work of far-sighted, humanitarian reformers.

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In this fourth edition of his now classic account, Professor Emsley draws on new research that has shifted the focus from class to gender, from property crime to violent crime and towards media constructions of offenders, while still maintaining a balance with influential early work in the area.

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Wide-ranging and accessible, the new edition examines:

�� the value of criminal statistics

�� the effect that contemporary ideas about class and gender had on perceptions of criminality

�� changes in the patterns of crime

�� developments in policing and the spread of summary punishment

�� the increasing formality of the courts

�� the growth of the prison as the principal form of punishment and debates about the decline in corporal and capital punishments

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Thoroughly updated throughout, the fourth edition also includes, for the first time, illuminating contemporary illustrations.

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List of illustrations	p. viii
List of tables and figures	p. ix
Abbreviations used in notes	p. x
Preface and acknowledgements to the fourth edition	p. xi
Publisher's acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: crime and the law	p. 1
The statistical map	p. 21
Class perceptions	p. 57
Gender perceptions	p. 96
Environm... MOREental perceptions	p. 118
Fiddles, perks and pilferage	p. 147
The criminal class and professional criminals	p. 177
Prosecutors and the courts	p. 188
Detection and prevention: the old police and the new	p. 227
Punishment and reformation	p. 261
Concluding remarks	p. 308
Further reading: further research	p. 315
Index	p. 319
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Clive Emsley is Emeritus Professor of History at the Open University. His books include Hard Men: Violence in England Since 1750 (2005); Crime, Policy and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940 (2007); The Great British Bobby (2009); and Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England (forthcoming).

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