General

• W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. 4 (London and Chicago, 1765).
• R. R. Follett, Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1800-30 (New York and Basingstoke, 2000).
• Adrian Gray, Crime and criminals of Victorian London (Chichester, 2006).
• D. T. Hawkings, Criminal Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Criminal Records in England and Wales (Stroud, 1992).
• M. Herber, Criminal London: A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939 (Chichester, 2002).
• Peter King, The rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing Patterns of Perception and Prosecution, Past and Present, 160 (1998), pp. 116–66.
• Peter King and Joan Noel, The Origins of 'The Problem of Juvenile Delinquency': The Growth of Juvenile Prosecutions in London in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Criminal Justice History, 14 (1993), pp. 17–41.
• David Lieberman, Mapping Criminal Law: Blackstone and the Categories of English Jurisprudence, in Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830, ed. by Norma Landau (Cambridge, 2002).
• Lucy Moore, Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld (Harmondsworth, 2000).
• L. Radzinowicz, History of English Criminal Law and its Administration from 1750 (London and Oxford, 1948).
• Heather Shore, Home, Play and Street life: Causes of, and Explanations for, Juvenile Crime in the Early Nineteenth Century, in Childhood in Question : Children, Parents and the State, ed. by Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey (Manchester, 1999), pp. 96–114.
• H. Shore, Artful dodgers: youth and crime in early nineteenth-century London (Woodbridge, 2002).
• Donald Thomas, The Victorian underworld (London, 1998).
• D. M. Turner, Popular Marriage and the Law: Tales of Bigamy at the Eighteenth-Century Old Bailey, London Journal, 30:1 (2005), pp. 6–21.
• Martin J. Wiener, Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law and policy in England, 1830-1914 (Cambridge, 1990).

Breaking the Peace

• Clive Emsley, Hard Men: Violence in England Since 1750 (London, 2005).
• Elizabeth Foyster, Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857 (Cambridge, 2005).
• Drew D. Gray, The Regulation of Violence in the Metropolis : the Prosecution of Assault in the Summary Courts, c.1780-1820, London Journal, 32:1 (2007), pp. 75-87.
• N. Rogers, Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century London: The Vagrancy Laws and their Administration, Histoire Sociale/Social History, 47 (1991), pp. 127–47.
• Robert Shoemaker, The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 2004).
• J. Carter Wood, Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 2004).

Deception

• D. Andrew and R. McGowen, The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London (Berkeley, 2001).
• Robert Colley, The Shoreditch tax frauds : a study of the relationship between the state and civil society in 1860, Historical Research, 78:202 (2005), pp. 540-62.
• Phil Handler, Forgery and the End of the 'Bloody Code'; in Early Nineteenth-Century England, Historical Journal, 48:3 (2005), pp. 683–702.
• R. McGowen, From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution, Past and Present, 165 (1999), pp. 107–140.
• R. McGowen, Making the 'Bloody Code'? Forgery Legislation in Eighteenth-Century England, in Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830, ed. by Norma Landau (Cambridge, 2002).
• George Robb, White-collar crime in modern England : financial fraud and business morality, 1845-1929. (Cambridge, 1992).
• R. S. Sindall, Middle-class crime in nineteenth century England, Criminal Justice History, 4 (1983), pp. 23-40.

Killing

• S. D. Amussen, Being Stirred to Much Unquietness: Violence and Domestic Violence in Early Modern England, Journal of Women's History, 6 (1994), pp. 70–89.
• S. D. Amussen, Punishment, Discipline and Power: The Social Meanings of Violence in Early Modern England, Journal of British Studies, 34 (1995), pp. 1–34.
• Donna T. Andrew, The Code of Honour and its Critics: The Opposition to Duelling in England, 1700-1850, Social History, 5 (1980), pp. 409–434.
• J. M. Beattie, Violence and Society in Early-Modern England, in Perspectives in Criminal Law, ed. by A. N. Doob and E. L. Greenspan (Ontario, 1985).
• J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986).
• John Brewer, Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2004).
• Frances Dolan, Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (Ithaca and London, 1994).
• T. R. Forbes, Inquests into London and Middlesex Homicides, 1673-1782, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 50 (1977), pp. 207–20.
• M. Gaskill, Reporting Murder: Fiction in the Archives of Early Modern England, Social History, 23 (1998), pp. 1–30.
• M. Gaskill, Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000).
• M. Hunt, Wife-Beating, Domesticity and Women's Independence in Eighteenth-Century London, Gender and History, 4 (1992), pp. 10–33.
• M. Jackson, New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-century England (Manchester, 1996).
• Mark Jackson (ed.), Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-1800 (Aldershot, 2002).
• Vanessa McMahon, Murder in Shakespeare's England (London, 2004).
• J. A. Sharpe, Domestic Homicide in Early Modern England, Historical Journal, 24:1 (1981), pp. 29–48.
• J. A. Sharpe and L. Stone, The History of Violence in England: Some Observations and A Rejoinder, Past and Present, 108 (1985), pp. 206–224.
• R. B. Shoemaker, Male Honour and the Decline of Public Violence in Eighteenth-Century London, Social History, 26 (2001), pp. 190–208.
• R. B. Shoemaker, The Taming of the Duel: Masculinity, Honour and Ritual Violence in London, 1660-1800, Historical Journal, 45 (2002), pp. 525–45.
• Robert Shoemaker, The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 2004).
• Antony Simpson, Dandelions on the Field of Honor: Duelling, the Middle Classes, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century England, Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988), pp. 99–155.
• Lawrence Stone, Interpersonal Violence in English Society 1300-1980, Past and Present, 101 (1983), pp. 22–33.
• Martin Wiener, Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (Cambridge, 2003).
• Sarah Wise, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (London, 2004).

Offences Against the Crown

• C. Emsley, An Aspect of 'Pitt's Terror': Prosecution for Sedition during the 1790s, Social History, 6 (1981), pp. 155–84.
• M. Gaskill, Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000).
• N. Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain (Oxford, 1998).
• J. Styles, Our Traitorous Moneymakers: The Yorkshire Coiners and the Law, 1760-83, in An Ungovernable People: The English and their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. by J. Brewer (London, 1980).

Sexual Offences

• M. Chaytor, Husband(ry): Narratives of Rape in the Seventeenth Century, Gender and History, 7 (1995), pp. 378–407.
• A. Clark, Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845 (London, 1987).
• N. M. Goldsmith, Worst of Crimes: Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century London (Aldershot, 1998).
• Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 (London, 1999).
• Tim Hitchcock, English Sexualities, 1700-1800 (Basingstoke, 1997).
• Louise A. Jackson, Child sexual abuse in Victorian England (London, 2000).
• A. Simpson, Vulnerability and the Age of Female Consent: Legal Innovation and its Effect on Prosecution for Rape in Eighteenth-Century London, in Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment, ed. by G. S. Rousseau and R. Porter (Manchester, 1987).
• Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume 1, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London (Chicago, 1998).
• Judith R. Walkowitz, City of dreadful delight : narratives of sexual danger in late Victorian London. (Chicago, IL, 1992).

Theft

• J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986).
• J. M Beattie, Crime and Inequality in Eighteenth-Century London, in Crime and Inequality, ed. by J. Hagan and R. D Peterson (Stanford, California, 1995).
• J. Childs, War, Crime Waves, and the English army in the Late Seventeenth Century, War and Society, 15 (1997), pp. 1–17.
• P. D'Sena, Perquisites and Casual Labour on the London Wharfside, London Journal, 14 (1989), pp. 130–47.
• Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820 (Oxford, 2000).
• B. Lemire, The Theft of Clothes and Popular Consumerism in Early Modern England, Journal of Social History, 24 (1990), pp. 255–76.
• B. Lemire, Peddling Fashion: Salesmen, Pawnbrokers, Tailors, Thieves and the Second-Hand Clothes Trade in England, c. 1700-1800, Textile History, 22 (1991), pp. 67–82.
• P. Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1991).
• L. MacKay, Why They Stole: Women in the Old Bailey, 1779-1789, Journal of Social History, 32 (1999), pp. 623–39.
• P. B. Munsche, Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws, 1671-1831 (Cambridge, 1981).
• Deirdre Palk, Private Crime in Public Places: Pickpockets and Shoplifters in London, 1780-1823, in The Streets of London: From the Great Fire to the Great Stink, ed. by Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore (London, 2003), pp. 135–150.
• James Sharpe, Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman (London, 2004).
• R. B. Shoemaker, The Street Robber and the Gentleman Highwayman: Changing Representations and Perceptions of Robbery in London, 1690-1800, Cultural and Social History, 3 (2006), pp. 1–25.
• Gillian Spraggs, Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (London, 2001).
• John Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1832 (London, 1979).
• J. Styles, Embezzlement, Industry and Law in England, 1550-1780, in Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory, ed. by M. Berg, P. Hudson and M. Sonenscher (Cambridge, 1983).
• E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters (London, 1975).
• Tammy C. Whitlock, Crime, gender, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century England (Aldershot, 2005).