London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930
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.
| Autor: | Shore, Heather |
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| ISBN: | 9781349338450 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 286 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Veröffentlicht: | 20.03.2015 |
| Untertitel: | A Social and Cultural History |
| Schlagworte: | Criminal gang crime gangs history of crime organised crime pick-pockets prostitution robbery street crime underworld |
Heather Shore is a Reader in History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London (1999) and has co-edited two books, with Pamela Cox, Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950 (2002) and with Tim Hitchcock, The Streets of London: From the Great Fire to the Great Exhibition (2003).