Crime and Punishment: 10 years of research (1)

Emsley, Clive

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“…59 The result was the creation of a more efficient court system, the development of the modern penitentiary system, and the establishment of a new-style police force. 60 The progressive implantation of the police, starting in Glasgow in the early 1800s and London in 1829, and then extending to the provinces and industrial districts of the country as a whole between 1835 and 1856, emerged from a new consensus that it was essential to create an organised professional body that would both prevent and detect crime and also maintain discipline in working-class communities.…”

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Hell-Raising and Hair-Razing: Violent Robbery in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Kilday¹

2013

The Scottish Historical Review

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This piece investigates trends in criminal prosecutions in nineteenthcentury Scotland and considers whether fears of a crime epidemic which were prevalent in England at that time were also relevant in the northern context. Using legal prosecutions for robbery more specifically, the article offers an analysis of indictment trends which suggests the existence of a paradox in Scottish criminality, where in a context of heightened awareness and intensified concern about criminality (especially in relation to violent offences) the incidence of this type of criminality declined after the mid-point of the century. The piece also offers an investigation of the nature and incidence of robbery in Scotland during the nineteenth century and determines how the crime was carried out, by whom, and for what purpose. Comparisons are drawn between the Scottish and English experience of violent theft in order to establish certain distinctive characteristics about how robbery was committed north of the Tweed and to reason why a wider and more detailed analysis of crime in nineteenthcentury Scotland is warranted. Finally, the article offers some explanations for the decline in robbery and other violent offences in Scotland after 1850, including reference to the 'civilising process' hypothesis which merits closer attention in the context of Scottish criminal history.

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Hell-Raising and Hair-Razing: Violent Robbery in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Kilday¹

2013

The Scottish Historical Review

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“…From its development as an academic discipline in the 1970s, crime history was embedded in a commitment to creating histories for and about 'common people' (Emsley 2005;Thompson 1966) and, as such, was enmeshed with various forms of public history. Academic research on crime was matched, even propelled, by a massive upsurge in the 1970s of family historians visiting archives to research their criminal ancestors.…”

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Digital Crime Histories and Developing a Public Pedagogy of Criminal Justice

Piper

Roscoe²

2023

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Crime history was a pioneer in the digital arena, democratising access to the past by engaging large public and academic audiences with primary datasets online. This article traces the evolution of digital crime history from 2003 to 2021 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It charts a shift from catering to a passive audience towards projects that actively engage public audiences through crowdsourced transcriptions, interactive data visualisations and other aural, visual and multimedia forms. It has never been easier to access these nations’ criminal pasts online, but we must pause to reflect on what the aims of public engagement are. What kinds of digital public pedagogy do we want to build, and how can they be critical, reflective and widely representative? We conclude by considering the challenges to this endeavour, including what roles academics and commercial gatekeepers might play, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uneven geographies of digitisation within the Southern Hemisphere.

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English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650–1850: A Historiographic Essay

Smith¹

2007

Law hist. rev.

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In his inaugural lecture as Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge, delivered in October 1888, Frederic Maitland offered a set of provocative and now familiar reflections on “Why the history of English law is not written.” According to Maitland, although English archives possessed “a series of records which for continuity, catholicity, minute detail[,] and authoritative value” had “no equal…in the world,” the “unmanageable bulk” of these sources had “overburdened” aspiring historians of English law. As a result, “large provinces” of English legal history remained to be “reclaimed from the waste.” With few willing to undertake such reclamation efforts, the historiography of English law remained as bleak and barren as the bogs from which Maitland's Cambridgeshire had itself only reluctantly emerged.

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Crime and Punishment: 10 years of research (1)

Cited by 12 publications

References 108 publications

Hell-Raising and Hair-Razing: Violent Robbery in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Hell-Raising and Hair-Razing: Violent Robbery in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Digital Crime Histories and Developing a Public Pedagogy of Criminal Justice

English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650–1850: A Historiographic Essay

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