Murder capital : suspicious deaths in London, 1933-53
Bell, Amy HelenAuthor
'Murder Capital' is a historical study of suspicious deaths, unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation, in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths - murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions - reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Murder Capital' is a historical study of suspicious deaths, unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation, in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths - murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions - reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city.
Description based on print version record.
London crime scenes of the 1930s -- Violent crime and the family in wartime London, 1939-45 -- Suspicious deaths and strangers in wartime London, 1939-45 -- Suspicious deaths and abortions in London, 1933-53 -- Infanticide in London, 1933-53 -- Suspicious deaths in post-war London, 1945-53.
Murder
Murder
Socioeconomic Factors
Social Control, Formal
Environment
Social Problems
Crime
Sociology
History, Modern 1601-
Social Sciences
History
Environment and Public Health
Criminology
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
Population Characteristics
Biological Phenomena
Health Care
Humanities
Social Change
History, 20th Century
Cities
Homicide
Law Enforcement
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency