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Books
Crime and English Society 1750-1900 by Clive Emsley, 2nd edition (Longman, 1996)
The English Police: A Political and Social History by Clive Emsley, 2nd edition (Longman, 1996)
The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England by Leon Radzinowicz and Roger Hood (Clarendon Press, 1990)
White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality 1845-1929 by George Robb (Cambridge University Press)
Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London by Heather Shore (Boydell Press/Royal Historical Society, 1999)
Street Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Media Panic or Real Danger? by Rob Sindall (Leicester University Press, 1990)
The New Police in Nineteenth-Century England: Crime, conflict and control by David Taylor (Manchester University Press, 1997)
Crime, policing and punishment in England 1750-1914 by David Taylor (Macmillan, 1998)
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England 1830-1914 by Martin J Wiener (Cambridge University Press)
Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England by Lucia Zedner (Clarendon Press, 1991)
Places to visit
The London Dungeons - 28-34 Tooley Street, London, Tel: 020 7403 0606. Detailing the darker side of London life for the last 1500 years, the London Dungeons include a section on Jack the Ripper and Victorian crime.
West Midlands Police Museum - Sparkhill Police Station, 607 Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham. Tel: 0121 626 7181. The West Midlands Police Museum houses a wide range of pictures, information and items to show the development of policing in and around Birmingham.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum - 221B Baker Street, London. The home of the greatest Victorian sleuth, faithfully preserved as it would have been in the nineteenth century.
About the author
By Professor Clive Emsley, Professor of History at the Open University and currently President of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Educated at the Universities of York and Cambridge, he has taught at the University of Paris and held visiting posts in Australia and Canada.
Published: 2001-08-01
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