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This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday reveal the evolution of attitudes towards criminality and the law over the course of the twentieth century. Highlighting important periods of change and development that have shaped the overall history of crime in Britain, the authors provide in-depth analysis and explanation of each theme. This is an ideal companion for undergraduate students taking courses on Crime in Britain, as well as a fascinating resource for scholars.
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Anne-Marie
Kilday
and
David
Nash
38.
For
further
discussion
of
this
see
D.
Cox
(2016)
‘Hand
in
Glove
with
the
Penny-a-liners’:
e
Bow
Street
“Runners”
in
Factual
and
Fictional
Narrative’,
in
A.-M.
Kilday
and
D.S.
Nash
(eds)
True
Crime
Histories:
Micro-
Studies
in
Law,
Crime
and
Deviance
Since
1700
(London:
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pp.
251–89.
39.
For
further
discussion
see
for
instance
B.
Forshaw
(2016)
Brit
Noir:
e
Pocket
Essential
Guide
to
British
Crime
Fiction,
Film
&
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J.
Earwalker
(2002)
Scene
of
the
Crime:
A
Guide
to
the
Landscapes
of
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Detective
Fiction
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P.
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(2016)
Studying
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Film
(Leighton
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S.
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R.
Murphy
(eds)
(1999)
British
Crime
Cinema
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See
for
instance
the
chapter
by
A.-M.
Kilday
in
this
volume
as
well
as
I.
Madoc-Jones,
C.
Gordon,
S.
Dubberley
and
C.
Hughes
(2014)
‘From
Celebrity
Criminal
to
Criminal
Celebrity:
Concerning
the
“Celebrification”
of
Sex
Crime
in
the
UK’,
British
Journal
of
Community
Justice
,
Vol.
12,
No.
3,
pp.
35–48.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Crime and Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain
- 2 Britain’s ‘Most Wanted’: Homicide and Serial Murder since 1900
- 3 Serious Property Offending in the Twentieth Century
- 4 Racial Hate Crime in Modern Britain
- 5 Offences Against the Person: Child Sexual Abuse
- 6 Anarchism, Assassination and Terrorism in Modern Britain
- 7 ‘Hope I Die Before I Get Old’: Social Rebellion and Social Diseases
- 8 Organised Crime, Criminality and the ‘Gangster’
- 9 Punishment: The Death Penalty and Incarceration
- 10 Law Enforcement: Policies and Perspectives
- Further Reading
- Index