General

• J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986).
• Douglas Hay, Property, Authority and the Criminal law,, in Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. by D. Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G Rule, E. P. Thompson and Cal Winslow (London, 1976).
• Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820 (Oxford, 2000).
• J. H. Langbein, Albion's Fatal Flaws, Past and Present, 98 (1982), pp. 96–120.
• Randall McGowen, The Changing Face of God's Justice: The Debates over Divine and Human Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England, Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988), pp. 63–98.
• Randall McGowen, The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England, in Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900 :Punishing the English, ed. by Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths (Basingstoke, 2004), pp. 210–231.
• J. A. Sharpe, Judicial Punishment in England (London, 1990).

Pardons

• J. M Beattie, The Cabinet and the Management of Death at Tyburn after the Revolution of 1688-1689, in The Revolution of 1688-1689, ed. by L. Schwoerer (Cambridge, 1992).
• J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
• Roger Chadwick, Bureaucratic mercy : the Home Office and the treatment of capital cases in Victorian Britain (New York, 1992).
• V. A. C Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (Oxford, 1994).
• Douglas Hay, Property, Authority and the Criminal law,, in Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. by D. Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G Rule, E. P. Thompson and Cal Winslow (London, 1976).
• 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).
• J. H. Langbein, Albion's Fatal Flaws, Past and Present, 98 (1982), pp. 96–120.
• 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.
• Lynn MacKay, Refusing the Royal Pardon: London Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and the Press, 1789, London Journal, 28 (2003), pp. 21–37.

Death

• J. M. Beattie, London Crime and the Making of the 'Bloody Code', 1689-1718, in Stilling the Grumbling Hive, ed. by Lee Davison, T. Hitchcock, T. Keirn and R. Shoemaker (Stroud, 1992).
• J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
• Alan Brooke and David Brandon, Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree (Stroud, 2004).
• Ruth Campbell, Sentence of Death by Burning for Women, Journal of Legal History, 5 (1984), pp. 44–59.
• J. S. Cockburn, Punishment and Brutalization in the English Enlightenment, Law and History Review, 12 (1994), pp. 155–179.
• Simon Devereaux, The Abolition of the Burning of Women in England Reconsidered, Crime, History and Societies, 9 (2005), pp. 73–98.
• Simon Devereaux, Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation and Convict Resistance in London, 1789, Law and History Review, 25 (2007).
• V. A. C Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (Oxford, 1994).
• Phil Handler, Forgery and the End of the 'Bloody Code'; in Early Nineteenth-Century England, Historical Journal, 48:3 (2005), pp. 683–702.
• P. Jenkins, From Gallows to Prison? The Execution Rate in Early Modern England, Criminal Justice History, 7 (1986), pp. 51–72.
• Thomas Laqueur, Crowds, Carnival and the State in English Executions, 1604-1868, in The First Modern Society, ed. by A. L. Beier, David Cannadine and James M. Rosenheim (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 305–356.
• Peter Linebaugh, The Tyburn Riot Against the Surgeons, in Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. by D. Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G Rule, E. P. Thompson and Cal Winslow (London, 1976).
• Lynn MacKay, Refusing the Royal Pardon: London Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and the Press, 1789, London Journal, 28 (2003), pp. 21–37.
• R. McGowen, The Body and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England, Journal of Modern History, 59 (1987), pp. 651–79.
• Randall McGowen, The Changing Face of God's Justice: The Debates over Divine and Human Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England, Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988), pp. 63–98.
• 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, History, Culture and the Death Penalty: The British Debates, 1840-1870, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, 29:2 (2003), pp. 229–249.
• Andrea McKenzie, Martyrs in Low Life? Dying 'Game' in Augustan England, Journal of British Studies, 42 (2003), pp. 167–205.
• J. Oldham, On Pleading the Belly: A History of the Jury of Matrons, Criminal Justice History, 6 (1985), pp. 1–64.
• J. A. Sharpe, 'Last Dying speeches': Religion, Ideology and Public Execution in Seventeenth-Century England, Past and Present, 107 (1985), pp. 144–67.
• Greg T. Smith, "I Could Hang Anything You Can Bring Before Me" : England's Willing Executioners In 1883, in Penal practice and culture, 1500-1900 : punishing the English, ed. by Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths (Basingstoke, 2004), pp. 285-308.

Imprisonment

• J. M. Beattie, English Penal Ideas and the Origins of Imprisonment, in Taking Responsibility: Citizen Involvement in the Criminal Justice System, ed. by W. Barnes (Toronto, 1995).
• C. W. Chalklin, The Reconstruction of London's Prisons 1770-99: An Aspect of the Growth of Georgian London, London Journal, 9 (1983), pp. 21–34.
• Margaret DeLacy, Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850 (Stanford, California, 1986).
• S. Devereaux, The Making of the Penitentiary Act, 1775-1779, Historical Journal, 42 (1999), pp. 405–433.
• R. Evans, The Fabrication of Virtue: Prison Architecture, 1750-1840 (Cambridge, 1982).
• William James Forsythe, The reform of prisoners, 1830-1900 (Beckenham, 1987).
• M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London, 1977).
• M. Ignatieff, A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 (London, 1978; Harmondsworth, 1989).
• J. Innes, Prisons for the Poor: English Bridewells, 1555-1800, in Labour, Law and Crime: An Historical Perspective, ed. by F. Snyder and D. Hay (London, 1987).
• P. King, Punishing Assault: The Transformation of Attitudes in the English Courts, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27 (1996), pp. 43–74.
• S. McConville, A History of English Prison Administration, Volume 1 (London, 1981).
• R. McGowen, A Powerful Sympathy: Terror, the Prison and Humanitarian Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Journal of British Studies, 25 (1986), pp. 312–34.
• M. Philip Priestley, Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914. (London, 1985).
• W. H. Sheehan, Finding Solace in Eighteenth-Century Newgate, in Crime in England 1550-1800, ed. by J. S. Cockburn (London, 1977).
• Sydney Webb and Beatrice Webb, English Prisons Under Local Government (London, 1922).

Pillory and Whipping

• 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.
• Robert Shoemaker, The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 2004).
• R. B. Shoemaker, Streets of Shame? The Crowd and Public Punishments in London, 1700-1820, in Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English, ed. by S. Devereaux and P. Griffiths (Basingstoke, 2004).
• G. T. Smith, Civilised People Don't Want to See That Kind of Thing: The Decline of Public Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840, in Qualities of Mercy, ed. by C. Strange (Vancouver, 1996).

Transportation

• J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
• P. W. Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (Baltimore, Maryland, 1988).
• Simon Devereaux, In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and the English State, 1770-1830, in Qualities of Mercy: Justice, Punishment and Discretion, ed. by C. Strange (Vancouver, 1996).
• Simon Devereaux, Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation and Convict Resistance in London, 1789, Law and History Review, 25 (2007).
• Gregory Durston, Magwitch's Forbears: Returning from Transportation in Eighteenth-Century London, Australian Journal of Legal History, 9 (2005), pp. 137–58.
• R. Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies 1718-1775 (Oxford, 1987).
• Cynthia Herrup, Punishing Pardon: Some Thoughts on the Origins of Penal Transportation, in Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English, ed. by Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths (Basingstoke, 2004), pp. 121–37.
• John Bradley Hirst, Convict Society and its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales (Sydney, 1983).
• R. Hughes, The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868 (London, 1987).
• J. Innes, The Role of Transportation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Penal Practice, in New Perspectives in Australian History, ed. by C. Bridge (London, 1990).
• Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: The Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (Basingstoke, 2004).
• Sian Rees, The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts (New York, 2002).
• George Rudé, Protest and Punishment: The Story of the Social and Political Protesters Transported to Australia (Oxford, 1978).
• A. G. L. Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies: A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and Other Parts of the British Empire (London, 1966, 1971).