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This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld, breaking new ground by offering a sustained exploration of the idea of the underworld from the early eighteenth century. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Detailed and rigorous research informs chapters that focus on broad themes like robbery, pick-pocketing, swindling, street crime, youth gangs and gangsters; but also on the detailed reconstruction of criminal lives. This book explores the 'criminal underworld' as both a social and cultural concept, and considers the evolving narrative of the underworld alongside the lives of plebeian and working-class Londoners who encountered the criminal justice system as offenders, victims and witnesses.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. 'Now we have the informing Dogs!': Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s 3. 'A Noted Virago': Moll Harvey and her 'Dangerous Crew', 1727 - 1738 4. 'The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day': Changing Street Theft, c. 1800 - 1850 5. 'There goes Bill Sheen, the murderer': Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827 - 1852 6. 'A new species of swindling': Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the 'Long-Firm', c. 1760 - 1913 7. 'A London Plague that must be swept away': Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882 - 1912 8. 'The Terror of the People': Organised Crime in Interwar London 9. Conclusion
