Shore London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930

A Social and Cultural History
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-31391-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shore, Heather

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Shore is a Reader in History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of (1999) and has co-edited two books, with Pamela Cox, (2002) and with Tim Hitchcock, (2003).