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London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930: A Social and Cultural History de Heather Shore

London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930: A Social and Cultural History

Autor Heather Shore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2015
This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349338450
ISBN-10: 1349338451
Pagini: 286
Ilustrații: XI, 286 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2015
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction 2. 'Now we have the informing Dogs!': Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s 3. 'A Noted Virago': Moll Harvey and her 'Dangerous Crew', 1727 – 1738 4. 'The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day': Changing Street Theft, c. 1800 – 1850 5. 'There goes Bill Sheen, the murderer': Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827 – 1852 6. 'A new species of swindling': Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the 'Long-Firm', c. 1760 – 1913 7. 'A London Plague that must be swept away': Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882 – 1912 8. 'The Terror of the People': Organised Crime in Interwar London 9. Conclusion

Notă biografică

Heather Shore is a Reader in History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London (1999) and has co-edited two books, with Pamela Cox, Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950 (2002) and with Tim Hitchcock, The Streets of London: From the Great Fire to the Great Exhibition (2003).