Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London

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 writing about crime', when the older genres of criminal biographies, social policy pamphlets and 'last-dying speeches' were jo...

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1. VerfasserIn: Ward, Richard M. 1984- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014
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505 8 |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Graphs; List of Figures; Note on the Text and Abbreviations; Archives; Online collections of primary sources; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Contemporary Readings of Crime Literature ; 'All this is not Imagination, but Matter of Fact'; Chapter 3 Print Culture, Crime and Prosecution; Highway Robbery 'Grows no Joke'; The crime problem anticipated in print; Sharp increases in crime reporting in the press; Increases in prosecutions for property theft; The negative representation of crime in the press 
505 8 |a The Old Bailey Proceedings and the image of crime at mid-century'Gangs of desperate villains': Negative images of robbery in print; The prosecution wave and judicial decision-making; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Print Culture and Policing; The Efficacy of Empirical and Providential Detection; Print and the root causes of crime; Print and the policing of property crime; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Print Culture and Punishment; The mid-century panic about murder: An increase in prosecutions; The mid-century panic about murder: Robbery-murders; The mid-century panic about murder: Parricides 
505 8 |a The centrality of hanging and deterrence by terrorConclusion; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Content, Causes and Consequences; Content; Causes; Consequences; Notes; Bibliography; Manuscript primary sources; Printed primary sources; Secondary sources: Books; Secondary sources: Articles; Online sources; Index 
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