A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice

by Jo Turner (Editor), Paul Taylor (Editor), Sharon Morley (Editor), Karen Corteen (Editor)

Overview

The history of crime and punishment is an important, yet under-resourced area of criminology and criminal justice.

This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts, going well beyond a simple explanation of the word or theme. Offering a succinct approach to the vocabulary and terminology of historical and contemporary approaches to crime and punishment, it includes entries from expert contributors in a user-friendly A-Z format with clear direction to related entries and further reading. Including explanations of terms ranging from 'garrotting' to The Bow Street Runners, baby farming to juvenile delinquency, this easily accessible text will be ideal for the reader to draw on across the variety of modules and studies relating to the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447325864
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	07/21/2017
Series:	Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.77(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Jo Turner is senior lecturer at the University of Chester. She lecturers in criminology but her research spans the disciplines of criminology and history. Having being awarded her doctorate from Keele University, Jo has continued to research and publish around the themes of female offending in the past, women’s treatment by the criminal justice system in the past, and outcomes for women in the past following their contact with that system – much of which Jo has written and published on.

Paul Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester, UK. Paul has published in the area of mental health, trauma and criminal justice. As well as writing in areas of criminology, criminal justice and health, Paul undertakes research with occupational groups such as police officers, military veterans and mental health care practitioners, to gain understandings of the complexity of work cultures. Paul is also the Associate Editor of the academic journal Illness, Crisis & Loss.

Sharon Morley is deputy head of the Department of Social and Political Science and a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Chester, UK. Sharon’s research interests include young women’s experiences of violence, gender, space and self-regulation. Recently, her research and publications have spanned the areas of violence in society and the victimisation of health and social care professionals, as well as media representations of mentally disordered offenders. Sharon is a member of a number of sexual violence research networks.

Karen Corteen is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice in the School of Law at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Karen is interested in, has published in and teaches in, the areas of: victimology and visual victimology; critical criminology and zemiology; crimes and harms of the powerful and resistance to it; sports criminology, and the occupational-related harms of the 'sports entertainment' industry. She also publishes in the area of hate crime including female sex worker hate crime.

Table of Contents

Contributors vi

Acknowledgements xviii

Preface xix

A

Advocacy in Criminal Trials 1

Assizes 3

Australia, Crime, Law and Punishment 5

B

Benefit of Clergy 9

Bigamy 11

Blasphemy 13

'Bloody Code', The 15

Borstals 16

Bow Street Runners, The 18

Breach of the Peace 20

British Empire, The 22

Broadsides 24

Burke and Hare 26

C

Capital Punishment (England and Wales) 29

Capital Punishment (Ireland) 31

Capital Punishment (United States) 32

Chain Gangs 35

Coercive Confinement 37

Contagious Diseases Acts, The 39

Convict Prisons 41

Corporal Punishment 43

Crime Fiction 46

Crime Heritage 48

Crime Pamphlets 49

Criminal Class, The 52

Criminal Corpse, The 54

Criminal Lunatics 55

Criminal Statistics 58

Criminology 60

D

Desistance 63

Deviant Women 65

Digital History 67

Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies 69

Drunken Women 71

Duelling 73

E

English Detectives 77

F

Far Right, The 81

Female Murderers 83

Female Thieves 85

Financial Crime 87

First-wave Feminism 89

Fortune-telling 92

G

Garrotting Panics, The 95

Gladstone Report, The 97

H

Highland Clearances, The 99

I

Imperialism 103

Indentured Labour 105

Industrial Schools 107

Inebriate Institutions 109

Informal Justice 111

J

Juries 115

Juvenile Crime and Justice in Scotland 117

Juvenile Crime in Britain 119

L

Legal Representation 123

Lethal Violence (Scotland) 125

Licensing 127

Life-course Analysis 129

Local Prisons 131

Lynching 132

M

Macmillan and Wolfenden Committees, The 135

Magistrates 137

Marital Violence 139

Mark System, The 141

Medical Testimony in the Judicial Sphere 143

Mercy 145

N

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 149

'New' Police, The 152

Newspapers and Crime 153

Nightwatchmen 156

O

Organised Crime 159

Organised Crime (United States) 161

P

Parish Constables 165

Parricide 167

Patrick Colquhoun 169

Penal Reform Pressure Croups 171

Penal Servitude 173

Petty Sessions 175

Philanthropic Institutions 177

Pickpocketing 179

Pleading the Belly 181

Police Court Missionaries 183

Policing 18th- and 19th-century Scotland 185

Policing (20th century) 187

Prison Reform 189

Prison Riots 191

Prison Tourism 193

Prisons and Punishment in Scotland 195

Probation 196

Prohibition 199

Prostitution (19th century) 201

Prostitution (early 20th century) 203

Protest and Policing in Scotland 205

Public Order Law 207

Q

Quarter Sessions 211

R

Reformatory Schools 215

Respectable Criminal, The 217

Riot Act, The 219

S

Scottish Criminal Courts, The (c. 1747-1850) 223

Security Industry, The 228

Semi-penal Institutions for Women 230

Sexual Assault 232

Sherlock Holmes 237

Slave Trade, The 239

Slavery in the Americas 241

Solitary Confinement 243

Suicide 246

T

Temperance Movements 251

Ticket of Leave 253

Transportation 254

U

Underworld, The Criminal 259

Unlawful Assembly 261

V

Vagrancy 263

Victimology 265

Victims 269

Violence 271

W

Wales, Crime and Punishment 275

Watch Committees 277

Whitechapel Murders of 1888, The 279

White-collar Crime 281

Women and Violent Crime 283

Workhouse, The 285

Workhouse Children 286

Workplace Crime 289

Y

Youth Gangs 291

Legislation and cases index 297

Subject index 301

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The list of the 60 names, in fact, reads like a Who’s Who of the best academics in criminal history and criminology and the quality of the scholarship contained herein adds strength to the value of the book. The book provides a valuable basic introductory source to the history of crime and punishment and has the potential to become an essential text for those working in the field at all levels, be that researchers, teachers and students." - Law, Crime and History

"A lively and engaging reference book, offering comprehensive coverage. It will be an essential read for all those interested in the history of crime and punishment." Sarah Richardson, University of Warwick

"The key topics presented here are written by some of the best academics in the field. They provide succinct and valuable introductions to key issues in criminal justice history and will be of great value to anyone working, or just interested in the area." Clive Emsley, Open University

Editorial Reviews

"The list of the 60 names, in fact, reads like a Who’s Who of the best academics in criminal history and criminology and the quality of the scholarship contained herein adds strength to the value of the book. The book provides a valuable basic introductory source to the history of crime and punishment and has the potential to become an essential text for those working in the field at all levels, be that researchers, teachers and students." - Law, Crime and History

"A lively and engaging reference book, offering comprehensive coverage. It will be an essential read for all those interested in the history of crime and punishment." Sarah Richardson, University of Warwick

"The key topics presented here are written by some of the best academics in the field. They provide succinct and valuable introductions to key issues in criminal justice history and will be of great value to anyone working, or just interested in the area." Clive Emsley, Open University

From the Publisher