Crime Criminals Of Victorian Eng

Author : Adrian Gray
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752496764

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Crime and Criminals of Victorian England by Adrian Gray Pdf

Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal - we all think we know the realities of Victorian crime. Adrian Gray's thrilling book recounts the classic murders, by knife and poison, but it also covers much more, taking the reader into less familiar parts of Victorian life, uncovering the wicked, the vengeful, the foolish and the hopeless amongst the criminal world of the nineteenth century. Here you will encounter the women who sold their children, corrupt bankers, smugglers, highwaymen, the first terrorists, bloodthirsty mutineers and petty thieves; you will meet the 'mesmerists' who fooled a credulous public, and even the Salvation Army band that went to gaol. Gray journeys through the cities, villages, lanes, mills and sailing ships of the period, ranging from Carlisle to Cornwall, showing how our laws today have been shaped by what the Victorians considered acceptable - or made illegal.

Author : Adrian Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1860773923

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Crime and Criminals of Victorian London by Adrian Gray Pdf

In this fascinating exploration of the seedy underside of London life in the Victorian era, Adrian Gray provides a rich picture of the sheer variety of criminal activity in the city. While taking care to cover the familiar Dickensian themes of grisly murders and ragged street urchins, he also uses a range of dramatic but forgotten cases as evidence for patterns of crime, and to illustrate the causes and effects of changes in criminal law. Starting with murder and other violent crimes, he shows how pure greed and genuine mental illness were both responsible for unpleasant cases - such as the murder of an elderly aristocrat in his bed or the poisoning of a series of 'working girls'.

Author : Judith Rowbotham,Kim Stevenson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814209738

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Criminal Conversations by Judith Rowbotham,Kim Stevenson Pdf

"The essays in this book set out to explore the ways in which Victorians used newspapers to identify the causes of bad behavior and its impacts, and the ways in which they tried to "distance" criminals and those guilty of "bad" behavior from the ordinary members of society, including identification of them as different according to race of sexual orientation. It also explores how threats from within "normal" society were depicted and the panic that issues like "baby-farming" caused." "Victorian alarm was about crimes and bad behavior which they saw as new or unique to their period - but which were not new then and which, in slightly different dress, are still causing panic today. What is striking about the essays in this collection are the ways in which they echo contemporary concerns about crime and bad behavior, including panics about "new" types of crime. This has implications for modern understandings of how society needs to understand crime, demonstrating that while there are changes over time, there are also important continuities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798216098942

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Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen by David Taylor Pdf

This detailed study of the criminal justice system in Victorian Britain highlights the dilemmas facing those responsible for administering justice and protecting society from "the criminal." Encompassing the crimes of the never-identified Jack the Ripper, as well as many other equally intriguing criminals, Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen: Crime and Punishment in Victorian Britain is a detailed study of the criminal justice system as it evolved from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the outbreak of the "Great War" in 1914. The first section of the book considers crimes and criminals, while the second looks at the ways in which the Victorians sought to explain this deviant behavior. The third section focuses on the creation of criminals through the work of the constabulary and the courts. The final section considers the changing ways in which criminals were punished as the scaffold gave way to the prison as the dominant means of punishment. A brief introduction and conclusion set Victorian crime into its broader sociopolitical context and relates the issues society grappled with then to those of the present day.

Author : Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor N. Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445647876

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The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R. A. Bell,Trevor N. Bond,Kate Clarke,M.W. Oldridge Pdf

The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.

Author : Donald Thomas
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781471916625

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The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas Pdf

'Donald Thomas introduces us to the slums and fetid courtyards of nineteenth-century London and in doing so provides a sweeping portrait of the vast world that did not accept "Victorian Values". The villainy is outstanding. It is also entertaining. The author has a practised eye for the best anecdotes and presents amazing characters, some of whom come equipped with names that sound positively Dickensian . . . a wonderful profile of Victorian London' The Spectator

Author : Mary S. Hartman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486780474

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Victorian Murderesses by Mary S. Hartman Pdf

Riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen famous cases, offering illuminating details of the accused women's backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice.

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782253693

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Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England by Ian Ward Pdf

The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.

Author : Ross Gilfillan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834729

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Crime and Punishment in Victorian London by Ross Gilfillan Pdf

Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films. Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. Pornographers proliferate and an estimated eighty thousand prostitutes operate on the city’s streets. Even worse, the vulnerable are robbed in dark alleys or garroted, a new kind of mugging in which the victim is half-strangled from behind while being stripped of his possessions. This history takes you to nineteenth-century London’s grimy rookeries, home to thousands of the city’s poorest and most desperate residents. Explore the crime-ridden slums, flash houses, and gin palaces from a unique street-level view—and meet the people who inhabited them.

Author : Helen Johnston,Barry Godfrey,David J. Cox
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781473881075

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Victorian Convicts by Helen Johnston,Barry Godfrey,David J. Cox Pdf

“An interesting introduction to Victorian crimes, the people who committed them, and how effective rehabilitation may have been.” —Ripperologist Magazine What was life like in the Victorian underworld—who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories of a hundred criminal men and women, gives the reader an insight into their families and social background, the conditions in which they lived, their relationships and working lives, and their offences. They reveal how these individuals were treated by the justice and penal system of 150 years ago, and how they were regarded by the wider world around them. Such a rare and authentic insight into life in and out of prison will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the history of crime and criminals, in legal and prison history and in British society in the nineteenth century. “A fascinating, informative and educational read providing the history of these one hundred individuals who lived so long ago but who can teach us today the practices of the Victorian penal system and the struggles of the era.” —Crime Traveller “It is intriguing and very readable opening a window into lives of so many unfortunates. If you have an interest in police history this work, particularly details of numerous convictions and what followed after the court case was concluded, will be of interest.” —Surrey Constabulary History Journal

Author : John Jacob Tobias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:1319802609

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Urban Crime in Victorian England by John Jacob Tobias Pdf

Author : David J. Vaughan
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473864153

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Mad or Bad by David J. Vaughan Pdf

In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and struggled for change. It left 'mad people' hanged for offenses they could not remember, and bad people freed on unscrupulous pleas.Written in accessible language, this book - unlike any before it - retells twenty-five cases, from the renowned to obscure, including an attempt to murder a bemused Queen Victoria; the poisoner Dove and the much-feared magician; the kings former wet-nurse who slaughtered six children; the worst serial killer in Britainand more.A Who's Who introduces the principal players - lifesaving medics, like Maudsley and Bucknill; intransigent lawyers like Bramwell and Parke., while a convenient Glossary of terms and conditions: ranging from Insane on Arraignment to Her Majestys Pleasure, Ticket of Leave to Burden of Proof, helps to explain the outcomes of the cases.Insanity Conditions presents, in glossary format, the diagnosed maladies put forward in court. Rarely accepted, more often rejected, by those keen on justice in its traditional form. A History of Debate explains the titular subject - through graspable language and a window in time. How the ones found 'not guilty on the grounds of insanity' were curiously handled in Victorian law.A chapter devoted to madness and women - from hysteria to murder, monthly madness to crime. Raising opportune questions about the issue of gender, and exposing the truths of a masculine world.

Author : Lucia Zedner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154967554

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Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England by Lucia Zedner Pdf

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007352470

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders Pdf

“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.

Author : Haia Shpayer-Makov
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199577408

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The Ascent of the Detective by Haia Shpayer-Makov Pdf

Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.