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Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London (Hardcover)
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Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London (Hardcover)
Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
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In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the
volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This
was a 'golden age of writing about crime', when the older genres of
criminal biographies, social policy pamphlets and 'last-dying
speeches' were joined by a raft of new publications, including
newspapers, periodicals, graphic prints, the Old Bailey Proceedings
and the Ordinary's Account of malefactors executed at Tyburn. By
the early 18th century propertied Londoners read a wider array of
printed texts and images about criminal offenders - highwaymen,
housebreakers, murderers, pickpockets and the like - than ever
before or since. Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century
London provides the first detailed study of crime reporting across
this range of publications to explore the influence of print upon
contemporary perceptions of crime and upon the making of the law
and its administration in the metropolis. This historical
perspective helps us to rethink the relationship between media, the
public sphere and criminal justice policy in the present.
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