🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficu...
A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes. This book offers important new in...
Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain
This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to r...
Britain 1600-2000
Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years, Histories of Crime explores the evolution of attitudes towa...
The Violent North?
Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "the violent north", but how true is this statement? Does Scotland deserve to be defined thus, ...
Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century
Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth ...
1890 to the Present
This book argues that traditional images and practices associated with shame did not recede with the coming of modern Britain. Following the authors�...
Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1600-1900
This monograph traces the use, abuse and negotiation of the concept of shame from 1600-1900. The book shows good and bad behaviour, morality and perce...
...