Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England 1750-1900

The first edition of this work, bringing together for the first time the findings of specialized scholarship in a concise overview of the subject, immediately became a standard reference. In less than a decade, the large amount of scholarly work in the decade since has called forth a revised edition, one which maintains the work's position as an indispensable introduction to the field. Like its predecessor, this edition provides not only authoritative brief summaries of specialized research (..