London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930 [electronic resource] : A Social and Cultural History /
Shore, Heather.author.
This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 'Now we have the informing Dogs!': Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s; 3 'A Noted Virago': Moll Harvey and her 'Dangerous Crew', 1727-1738; 4 'The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day': Changing Street Theft, c. 1800-1850; 5 'There goes Bill Sheen, the murderer': Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827-1852; 6 'A new species of swindling': Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the 'Long-Firm', c. 1760-1913
7 'A London Plague that must be swept away': Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882-19128 'The Terror of the People': Organised Crime in Interwar London; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Civilization-History.
Great Britain-History.
Social history.
Criminology.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
History, Modern.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Crime and Society.
Modern History.