Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 Micro-Studies in the History of Crime

by Kilday, Anne-marie; Nash, David

• ISBN13: 9781472585271
• ISBN10: 1472585275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of crime and the law in historical context. The methodology used unpacks the wider historiographical and contextual issues related to each thematic area and facilitates discussion of the wider implications for the history of crime and social relations.

The case studies in the volume cover a range of incidents relating to crime, law and deviant behaviour since 1700, from policing vice in Victorian London to chain gang narratives from the southern United States. The book concludes by demonstrating how these narratives can be brought together to produce a more nuanced history of the area and suggests avenues for future research and study.

Author Biography

David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is editor of the journal Social and Cultural History and author of several books on the history of crime, including Blasphemy in the Christian World (2007) and Christian Ideals in British Society: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century (2013).

Anne-Marie Kilday is Professor of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is author of Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (2007), co-author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1600-1900 (2010) and editor (with David Nash) of Histories of Crime, 1600-2000 (2010).

Table of Contents

Introduction (David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Section One – Criminality, State and Society
1. The Execution of Thomas Aitkenhead – The Cultural History and Many Uses of a Martyr's Death (David Nash, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
2. History, Narrative and Understanding the “Haphazard Pursuit of Financial Crime” in Britain: The Case of Conrad Black/the Guinness Four/John Sadlier MP (Sarah Wilson, University of York, UK)
3. The Limits of Government Intervention: Caroline Wybrow and the Scandal of the Contagious 4. Diseases Acts (Adrian Ager, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
5. 'John Bull meets Jim Crow Justice: Rape, Racism and Military Law in the Twentieth Century' (Clifford Williamson, Bath Spa University, UK)
Section Two – Violence and the Violent
6. Love, Vengeance and Vitriol: An Edwardian True-Crime Drama (Katherine Watson, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
7. 'Was Ever a Woman so Vile as Me?' The Infamous Female Murderess Kate Webster (Anne-Marie Kilday, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Section Three - Police and Policing
8. 'Hand in Glove with the Penny-a-liners': The Bow Street Runners in Narrative Fact and Fiction (David Cox, University of Wolverhampton, UK)
9. 'The Criminal Within: The Glorious Career of a Parisian Commissaire de Police of the Belle Époque' (Anja Johansen, University of Dundee, UK)
10. Bobbies, Booze and Bagatelle: Policing Vice in Victorian London (Rachael Griffin, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Section Four – Prisoner Narratives and Confinement Stories
11. 'I am afraid she is perfectly responsible for her actions and is simply wicked': Reconstructing the Criminal Career of Julia Hyland' (Barry Godfrey, University of Liverpool, UK)
12. Making their Mark: Tattoos and Convict Life Histories (Helen Rogers, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
13. 'Nothing kept back, nothing exaggerated?' Piety, Penology and Conflict: Joseph Kingsmill, Prison 14. Chaplain (1842-1865) (Neil Davie, University of Lyon, France)
15. Chain Gang and Prison Narratives from the Southern U.S. (Vivien Miller, University of Nottingham, UK)
Conclusion – David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday
Bibliography
Index