[A] meticulously researched and well-presented academic history

- Min Wild, The Times Literary Supplement

The resulting study is very rich in detail indeed, and the account of print culture and the representation of crime are handled very well.

Studies in English Literature

Extremely well-written and researched ... a detailed study of crime reporting that examines the influence of print on contemporary perceptions of crime and the administration of justice ... fascinating.

Law, Crime and History

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 joined by a raft of new publications, including newspapers, periodicals, graphic prints, the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary’s Account of malefactors executed at Tyburn. By the early 18th century propertied Londoners read a wider array of printed texts and images about criminal offenders – highwaymen, housebreakers, murderers, pickpockets and the like – than ever before or since. Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London provides the first detailed study of crime reporting across this range of publications to explore the influence of print upon contemporary perceptions of crime and upon the making of the law and its administration in the metropolis. This historical perspective helps us to rethink the relationship between media, the public sphere and criminal justice policy in the present.
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1. Introduction: 'Little News from England, but of Robberies' 2. 'All this is not Imagination, but Matter of Fact': Contemporary Readings of Crime Literature 3. Highway Robbery 'Grows No Joke': Print Culture and Prosecution 4. The Efficacy of Empirical and Providential Detection: Print Culture and Policing 5. 'More Terror in it than Mere Hanging': Print Culture and Punishment 6. Conclusion: Constituting, as well as Reflecting, Social Realities Appendices Bibliography Index
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[A] meticulously researched and well-presented academic history
Analyses how crime and justice were represented in print during the London crime wave of 1747-1755.
The first book-length study of crime literature and law in 18th-century Britain
Academic interest in the history of crime and punishment has never been greater and the History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment series provides a home for the wealth of new research being produced. Individual volumes within the series cover topics related to the history of crime and punishment, from the later medieval to modern period, and seek to demonstrate the importance of this subject in furthering understanding of the way in which various societies and cultures operate. When taken together, the works in the series will show the evolution of the nature of illegality and attitudes towards its perpetration over time and will offer their readers a rounded and coherent history of crime and punishment through the centuries. The series' broad chronological and geographical coverage encourages comparative historical analysis of crime history between countries and cultures. Series Editor: Professor Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Editorial Board: Professor Bill Miller (Stony Brook University, USA) Professor Marianna Muravyeva (National Research University, Russia) Professor Neil Davie (University of Lyon II, France) Professor Johannes Dillinger (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Dr Louise Nyholm Kallestrup (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Dr Mark Roodhouse (University of York, UK) Dr Anja Johansen (University of Dundee, UK) Professor David Nash (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Dr Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472506856
Publisert
2014-08-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
644 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter

Biographical note

Richard M. Ward is Research Associate in History at the University of Sheffield, UK.