London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930

A Social and Cultural History

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2015
ISBN13: 9781349338450
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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2015 9781349338450
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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.

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ISBN13:9781349338450
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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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 – 1912 8. 'The Terror of the People': Organised Crime in Interwar London 9. Conclusion
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