Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914

Drew D. Gray is Senior Lecturer in the History of Crime at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the author of Crime, Prosecution and Social Relations (2009) and London's Shadows (2010).

• Section One: Key themes in the history of crime1. Introduction: Methods, themes and debates in the history of crime2. Media and Crime3. Violence: the decline of homicide and a growing intolerance towards assault4. The nature of property crime: highway robbery, burglary and petty theft5. The underlying impetuses to commit property crime6. Gender & crime in the criminal justice system: women as victims7. Gender & Crime: women as perpetrators of crime8. Juvenile crime: from artful dodger to reformatory boySection Two: The evolution & development of the English Criminal Justice System9. From parlour to police court: The role of the JP and the emergence of the modern magistrate10. Dogberry to detectives: Policing from amateurs to professionals11. Removing the victim? The changing nature of prosecution in the Courts in England12. The decline and fall of the ‘Bloody code’: the changing nature of punishment policy in the long eighteenth century13. The rise and fall of incarceration 14. Conclusions and suggestions for future researchBibliographyIndex

[Gray] has written an admirable textbook drawing on his own experience in different archives and combining this with an excellent ability to condense the published material and to make shrewd judgments … This will prove to be a valuable text, especially given the accompanying website materials.