Overview
Offers an original and unique study regarding the social significance of nineteenth-century crime and execution broadsides
Provides a thorough criminological treatment to this significant, but relatively unexplored, aspect of criminal justice history
Merges sociological and criminological theory and method with detailed historical analysis
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“This book is well worth reading and deserves a place on the small but growing shelf of studies of nineteenth-century street literature.” (Steve Roud, Folk Music Journal, 2021)
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Book Title: Crime, Broadsides and Social Change, 1800-1850
Authors: Kate Bates
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59789-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59788-5Published: 19 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59789-2Published: 18 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 248
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Critical Criminology, Violence and Crime, Crime and Society, History of Britain and Ireland, Legal History