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

A Social and Cultural History
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-33845-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3794 g

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

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

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).