Histories of Crime Britain 1600-2000

by Kilday, Anne-Marie; Nash, David

• ISBN13: 9780230224704
• ISBN10: 0230224709
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Written by a collection of internationally acknowledged experts, this rounded, coherent history of crime and the law demonstrates the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over the last four hundred years. Topics covered include fraud, policing, adultery, infanticide and the death penalty.

Author Biography

Anne-Marie Kilday is Principal Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on the history of violent crime and the history of female criminality since the early modern period. She is the author of The Unforgivable Crime? A History of Infanticide in Britain since 1600.
David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of the history of blasphemy, blasphemous libel and religious crime for over fifteen years. He is also author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1650-1900 (with Anne-Marie Kilday).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Moral Crimes and the Law in Britain since 1700	p. 17
Cruelty and Adultery: Offences against the Institution of Marriage	p. 39
Desperate Measures or Cruel Intentions? Infanticide in Britain since 1600	p. 60
'Most Intimate Violations': Contextualising the Crime of Rape	p. 80
Murder and Fatality: The Changing Face of Homicide	p. 100
Criminality, Deviance and the Underworld since 1750	p. 120
Fraud and White-collar Crime: 1850 to the Present	p. 141
Policing the Populace: The Road to Professionalisation	p. 160
Execution as Punishment in England: 1750-2000	p. 180
Further Reading	p. 203
Index	p. 209
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