The Birmingham Coiners, 1770-1816
John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.
Crime
Juvenile Delinquency in the Graeco-Roman World
Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in the classical world.
Gentlemen & Thugs in 17th-Century Britain
Keith M. Brown questions the extent to which humanism and Renaissance courtliness had weaned the Stuart aristocracy from random acts of violence and taking the law into their own hands.
Radical Rogues and Blackmailers in the Regency Period
Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.
Crime in 20th Century Britain
Victor Bailey looks at the alarming rise in British crime in the second half of the twentieth century.
Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.
Faces of Crime in Later Medieval England
J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.
Piracy in the South China Sea
By C.R. Boxer.
Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia
The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.