In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a 'golden age of writin

In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a 'golden age of writin

Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultu

Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1.

This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. F