Murder and Mayhem
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Murder and Mayhem

Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
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Murder and Mayhem

Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain

About this book

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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Information

30
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: 
Bloomsbury), 
pp. 
251–89.
39. 
For 
further 
discussion 
see 
for 
instance 
B. 
Forshaw 
(2016) 
Brit 
Noir: 
e 
Pocket 
Essential 
Guide 
to 
British 
Crime 
Fiction, 
Film 
TV
(Harpenden: 
Old 
Castle 
Books); 
J. 
Earwalker 
(2002) 
Scene 
of 
the 
Crime: 
Guide 
to 
the 
Landscapes 
of 
British 
Detective 
Fiction
(London: 
Aurum 
Press); 
P. 
Elliott 
(2016) 
Studying 
the 
British 
Crime 
Film
(Leighton 
Buzzard: 
Auteur) 
and 
S. 
Chibnall 
and 
R. 
Murphy 
(eds) 
(1999) 
British 
Crime 
Cinema
(London: 
Routledge).
40. 
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

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. 1 Introduction: Crime and Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain
  6. 2 Britain’s ‘Most Wanted’: Homicide and Serial Murder since 1900
  7. 3 Serious Property Offending in the Twentieth Century
  8. 4 Racial Hate Crime in Modern Britain
  9. 5 Offences Against the Person: Child Sexual Abuse
  10. 6 Anarchism, Assassination and Terrorism in Modern Britain
  11. 7 ‘Hope I Die Before I Get Old’: Social Rebellion and Social Diseases
  12. 8 Organised Crime, Criminality and the ‘Gangster’
  13. 9 Punishment: The Death Penalty and Incarceration
  14. 10 Law Enforcement: Policies and Perspectives
  15. Further Reading
  16. Index