Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere

Christopher Hamerton is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

• Foreword: Professor Dick Hobbs.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere: The Social Discovery of Moral Panic in Eighteenth Century London.- Chapter 2: The shaping of opinion: Literacy, media, and folk devils in eighteenth-century London.- Chapter 3: This great and monstrous thing, called London.- Chapter 4: Who has not trembled at the Mohocks name? Panic on the streets, 1712.- Chapter 5: Kill-grief and Comfort: Madame Geneva and the London gin panic, 1720-1751.- Chapter 6: Morality amid monstrosity: The London Monster panic, 1790.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.