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The ‘Crime Wave’ Revisited: Crime, Law Enforcement and Punishment in Britain, 1650–1900

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Robert B. Shoemaker
Robert B. Shoemaker
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University of Sheffield
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The Historical Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 763 - 768
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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References

1 For a comprehensive assessment of the field, see Innes, Joanna and Styles, John, ‘The crime wave: recent writing on crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century England’, Journal of British Studies, XXV (1986), 380–435CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Edited by Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E. P. Thompson and Cal Winslow.

3 A companion volume to Policing and prosecution was published in 1987: Law, labour and crime: an historical perspective, ed. Snyder, Francis and Hay, Douglas (Tavistock, 1987)Google Scholar.

4 Linebaugh, Peter, ‘The Ordinary of Newgate and his Account’, Crime in England 1550–1800, ed. Cockburn, J. S. (London, 1977), p. 257Google Scholar.

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6 Herrup, Cynthia B., The common peace: participation and the criminal law in seventeenth-century England (Cambridge, 1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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