General

• J. H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (London, 1971).
• J. H. Baker, Criminal Courts and Procedure at Common Law 1550-1800, in Crime in England 1500-1800, ed. by J. S. Cockburn (Princeton, 1977).
• J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986).
• J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
• David Jeffrey Bentley, English criminal justice in the nineteenth century (London, 1997).
• J. S. Cockburn, A History of English Assizes, 1558-1714 (London, 1972).
• J. S. Cockburn, Trial by the book? Fact and Theory in the Criminal Process, in Legal Records and the Historian, ed. by J. H. Baker (London, 1978).
• Catherine Crawford, Legalizing Medicine: Early Modern Legal Systems and the Growth of Medico-Legal Knowledge, in Legal Medicine in History, ed. by M. Clark and C. Crawford (Cambridge and New York, 1994), pp. 89–116.
• Catherine Crawford, Medical Practitioners and the Law in Eighteenth-Century England, in Medicine and the Law, ed. by Y. Otsuka and S. Sakai (Tokyo, 1998), pp. 35–62.
• Joel Peter Eigen, Witnessing insanity : madness and mad-doctors in the English court (New Haven (CT) and London, 1995).
• T. R. Forbes, Surgeons at the Old Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878 (New Haven, 1985).
• Mark Herber, Legal London: A Pictorial History (Chichester, 1999).
• Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820 (Oxford, 2000).
• Peter King, 'Press Gangs are Better Magistrates than the Middlesex Justices': Young Offenders, Press Gangs and Prosecution Strategies in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century England, in Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830, ed. by Norma Landau (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 97–116.
• Norma Landau (ed.), Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830 (Cambridge, 2002).
• Stephen Landsman, One Hundred Years of Rectitude: Medical Witnesses at the Old Bailey, 1717-1817, Law and History Review, 16:3 (1998), pp. 445–494.
• J. H. Langbein, The Criminal Trial before the Lawyers, The University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (1978), pp. 263–316.
• J. H. Langbein, Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources, University of Chicago Law Review, 50:1 (1983), pp. 1–36.
• J. H. Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford, 2003).
• Andrea McKenzie, 'This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose': The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England, Law and History Review, 23 (2005), pp. 279–314.
• Ruth Paley (ed.), Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris (London Record Society vol. 28, 1991).
• R. B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex (Cambridge, 1991).

Judges and Juries

• J. M. Beattie, London Juries in the 1690s, in Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury in England, 1200-1800, ed. by J. S. Cockburn and T. Green (Princeton, 1988).
• J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
• J. C. Brown, The Origins of the Special Jury, University of Chicago Law Review, 50 (1983), pp. 137–221.
• E. Foss, Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, 1066-1870 (London, 1870).
• T. Green, Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 (Chicago, 1985).
• D. Hay, The Class Composition of the Palladium of Liberty: Trial Jurors in the Eighteenth Century, in Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury in England, 1200-1800, ed. by J. S. Cockburn and Thomas A. Green (Princeton, 1988).
• G. Lamoine, Charges to the Grand Jury, 1689-1803 (London, 1992).
• J. H. Langbein, The Criminal Trial before the Lawyers, The University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (1978), pp. 263–316.
• J. C Oldham, The origins of the special jury, The University of Chicago Law Review, 50:1 (1983), pp. 137–221.
• Martin J. Wiener, Judges v. jurors : courtroom tensions in murder trials and the law of criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England, Law and History Review, 17 (1999), pp. 467-506.

The Role of Lawyers

• J. M. Beattie, Scales of Justice: Defence Counsel and the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Law and History Review, 9 (1991), pp. 221–67.
• John M. Beattie, Garrow and the detectives : Lawyers and policemen at the Old Bailey in the late eighteenth century, Crime, Histoire et Sociétés, 11:2 (2007), pp. 5-23.
• David J. A. Cairns, Advocacy and the making of the adversarial criminal trial, 1800-1865 (Oxford, 1998).
• T. P. Gallanis, The Rise of Modern Evidence Law, Iowa Law Review, 84 (1999), pp. 499–560.
• S. Landsman, The Rise of the Contentious Spirit: Adversary Procedure in Eighteenth-Century England, Cornell Law Review, 75 (1990), pp. 498–609.
• J. H. Langbein, The Criminal Trial before the Lawyers, The University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (1978), pp. 263–316.
• J. H. Langbein, Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources, University of Chicago Law Review, 50:1 (1983), pp. 1–36.
• J. H. Langbein, The Prosecutorial Origins of Defence Counsel in the Eighteenth Century: The Appearance of Solicitors, Cambridge Law Journal, 58 (1999), pp. 314–365.
• J. H. Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford, 2003).
• David Lemmings, Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2000).
• Allyson May, The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and London, 2003).
• Symposium, The Origins of the Adversary Criminal Trial, Journal of Legal History, 28:1 (2005), pp. 63–89.

Trial Verdicts

• J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986).
• J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
• J. P. Eigen, Intentionality and Insanity: What the Eighteenth-Century Juror Heard, in The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, Volume 2: Institutions and Society, ed. by William F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd (London, 1985).
• Peter King, Decision-Makers and Decision-Making in the English Criminal Law, 1750-1800, Historical Journal, 27 (1984), pp. 25–58.
• Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820 (Oxford, 2000).
• Dana Rabin, Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England (Basingstoke, 2004).
• Dana Rabin, Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century, Journal of British Studies, 44:3 (2005), pp. 457–77.
• N. Walker and Sarah McCabe, Crime and Insanity in England: The Historical Perspective (Edinburgh, 1968).