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Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900

ISBN: 9780582784857 | 0582784859
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 1/19/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor 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. The third edition brings the subject up-to-date by reflecting recent shifts away from class towards gender analysis, and the growing interest in violence as opposed to property crime.This text is suitable for undergraduate courses in modern English history and criminology courses in law ... MORE
List of tables and figures
vi
Preface and acknowledgements to the first editionvii
Preface to the second editionviii
Preface and acknowledgements to the third editionix... MORE
Abbreviations used in notesx
Introduction: crime and the law
1(20)
The statistical map
21(35)
Class perceptions
56(36)
Gender perceptions
92(22)
Environmental perceptions
114(29)
Fiddles, perks and pilferage
143(30)
The criminal class and professional criminals
173(10)
Prosecutors and the courts
183(38)
Detection and prevention: the old police and the new
221(32)
Punishment and reformation
253(44)
Concluding remarks
297(7)
Further reading: further research304(3)
Index307

Clive Emsley is Professor in the History Department at the Open University.  He was elected president of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice in 1995 and again in 1998. He has maintained a research interest in the revolutionary and Napoleonic period but since the early 1980s his work has focused primarily on the history of crime and policing. He is Director of the European Centre for the Study of Policing.   

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