Punishment
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General
Beattie, J. M.. Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800. Princeton, 1986.
Notes: chap.2 - policing; chap.3 - killing; chaps.4-5 - theft; chap.5 - gender; chaps.6-7 - judicial procedures; chap.8 trial verdicts; chaps.9-10 - punishment View or add to this citation.
Hay, Douglas. Property, Authority and the Criminal law,. In Hay, D, Linebaugh, Peter, Rule, John G., Thompson, E. P., Winslow, Cal (ed), Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. London, 1976.
King, Peter. Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820. Oxford, 2000.
Notes: chap.2-3 - policing; chap.5 - gender; chap.6 - theft; chap.7 - judicial procedures, verdicts; chap.8-10 - punishment general; chap.9 - pardons View or add to this citation.
Langbein, J. H.. Albion's Fatal Flaws. Past and Present, 98 (1982). pp: 96-120.
McGowen, Randall. The Changing Face of God's Justice: The Debatesover Divine and Human Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England. Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988). pp: 63-98.
McGowen, Randall. The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-CenturyEngland. In Devereaux, Simon, Griffiths, Paul (ed), Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900 :Punishing the English. Basingstoke, 2004. pp: 210-231.
Sharpe, J. A.. Judicial Punishment in England. London, 1990.
Pardons
Beattie, J. M.. The Cabinet and the Management of Death at Tyburn after the Revolution of 1688-1689. In Schwoerer, L. (ed), The Revolution of 1688-1689. Cambridge, 1992.
Beattie, J. M.. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
Notes: chap.3-4 - constables; chap.5 - thief-takers; chap.6-7 - judicial procedures, judges and juries, verdicts; chap.6-10 - pardons; chap.9 - transportation View or add to this citation.
Chadwick, Roger. Bureaucratic Mercy: The Home Office and the Treatment of Capital Cases in Victorian Britain. New York, 1992.
Gatrell, V. A. C.. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. Oxford, 1994.
Notes: This volume represents the classic statement of the history of capital punishment in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and is a necessary starting point for any further study of this subject. View or add to this citation.
Hay, Douglas. Property, Authority and the Criminal law,. In Hay, D, Linebaugh, Peter, Rule, John G., Thompson, E. P., Winslow, Cal (ed), Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. London, 1976.
King, Peter. Decision-Makers and Decision-Making in the English Criminal Law, 1750-1800. Historical Journal, 27 (1984). pp: 25-58.
King, Peter. Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820. Oxford, 2000.
Notes: chap.2-3 - policing; chap.5 - gender; chap.6 - theft; chap.7 - judicial procedures, verdicts; chap.8-10 - punishment general; chap.9 - pardons View or add to this citation.
Langbein, J. H.. Albion's Fatal Flaws. Past and Present, 98 (1982). pp: 96-120.
Langbein, J. H.. Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources. University of Chicago Law Review, 50:1 (1983). pp: 1-36.
MacKay, Lynn. 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
Beattie, J. M.. London Crime and the Making of the 'Bloody Code', 1689-1718. In Davison, Lee, Hitchcock, T, Keirn, T, Shoemaker, R (ed), Stilling the Grumbling Hive. Stroud, 1992.
Beattie, J. M.. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
Notes: chap.3-4 - constables; chap.5 - thief-takers; chap.6-7 - judicial procedures, judges and juries, verdicts; chap.6-10 - pardons; chap.9 - transportation View or add to this citation.
Brooke, Alan, Brandon, David. Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree. Stroud, 2004.
Campbell, Ruth. Sentence of Death by Burning for Women. Journal of Legal History, 5 (1984). pp: 44-59.
Cockburn, J. S.. Punishment and Brutalization in the English Enlightenment. Law and History Review, 12 (1994). pp: 155-179.
Devereaux, Simon. The Abolition of the Burning of Women in England Reconsidered. Crime, History and Societies, 9 (2005). pp: 73-98.
Devereaux, Simon. Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation and Convict Resistance in London, 1789. Law and History Review, 25 (2007).
Gatrell, V. A. C.. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. Oxford, 1994.
Notes: This volume represents the classic statement of the history of capital punishment in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and is a necessary starting point for any further study of this subject. View or add to this citation.
Handler, Phil. Forgery and the End of the 'Bloody Code'; in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Historical Journal, 48:3 (2005). pp: 683-702.
Jenkins, P.. From Gallows to Prison? The Execution Rate in Early Modern England. Criminal Justice History, 7 (1986). pp: 51-72.
Laqueur, Thomas. Crowds, Carnival and the State in English Executions, 1604-1868. In Beier, A L, Cannadine, David, Rosenheim, James M (ed), The First Modern Society. Cambridge, 1989. pp: 305-356.
Linebaugh, Peter. The Tyburn Riot Against the Surgeons. In Hay, D, Linebaugh, Peter, Rule, John G., Thompson, E. P., Winslow, Cal (ed), Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. London, 1976.
MacKay, Lynn. Refusing the Royal Pardon: London Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and the Press, 1789. London Journal, 28 (2003). pp: 21-37.
McGowen, R.. The Body and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England. Journal of Modern History, 59 (1987). pp: 651-79.
McGowen, Randall. The Changing Face of God's Justice: The Debatesover Divine and Human Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England. Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988). pp: 63-98.
McGowen, R.. From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution. Past and Present, 165 (1999). pp: 107-140.
McGowen, Randall. History, Culture and the Death Penalty: The British Debates, 1840-1870. Historical Reflections/Réflections Historiques, 29, 2 (2003). pp: 229-49.
McKenzie, Andrea. Martyrs in Low Life? Dying 'Game' in Augustan England. Journal of British Studies, 42 (2003). pp: 167-205.
Oldham, J.. On Pleading the Belly: A History of the Jury of Matrons. Criminal Justice History, 6 (1985). pp: 1-64.
Sharpe, J. A.. 'Last Dying speeches': Religion, Ideology and Public Execution in Seventeenth-Century England. Past and Present, 107 (1985). pp: 144-67.
Smith, Greg T.. "I Could Hang Anything that You Bring Before Me": England's Willing Executioners. In Devereaux, Simon, Griffiths, Paul (ed), Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English. London, 2004.
Imprisonment
Beattie, J. M.. English Penal Ideas and the Origins of Imprisonment. In Barnes, W. (ed), Taking Responsibility: Citizen Involvement in the Criminal Justice System. Toronto, 1995.
Brown, Alyson. English Society and the Prison: Time, Culture and Politics in the Development of the Modern Prison, 1850-1920. Woodbridge, 2003.
Chalklin, C. W.. The Reconstruction of London's Prisons 1770-99: An Aspect of the Growth of Georgian London. London Journal, 9 (1983). pp: 21-34.
DeLacy, Margaret. Prison Reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850. Stanford, California, 1986.
Devereaux, S.. The Making of the Penitentiary Act, 1775-1779. Historical Journal, 42 (1999). pp: 405-433.
Evans, R.. The Fabrication of Virtue: Prison Architecture, 1750-1840. Cambridge, 1982.
Forsythe, William James. The Reform of Prisoners, 1830-1900. London, 1987.
Foucault, M.. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. London, 1977.
Ignatieff, M.. A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. London, 1978; Harmondsworth, 1989.
Innes, J.. Prisons for the Poor: English Bridewells, 1555-1800. In Snyder, F., Hay, D. (ed), Labour, Law and Crime: An Historical Perspective. London, 1987.
King, P.. Punishing Assault: The Transformation of Attitudes in the English Courts. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27 (1996). pp: 43-74.
McConville, S.. A History of English Prison Administration, Volume 1. London, 1981.
McGowen, R.. A Powerful Sympathy: Terror, the Prison and Humanitarian Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Journal of British Studies, 25 (1986). pp: 312-34.
Priestley, Philip. Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914. London, 1985.
Sheehan, W. H.. Finding Solace in Eighteenth-Century Newgate. In Cockburn, J. S. (ed), Crime in England 1550-1800. London, 1977.
Webb, Sydney,, Webb, Beatrice. English Prisons Under Local Government. London, 1922; 1963.
Pillory and Whipping
McGowen, R.. From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution. Past and Present, 165 (1999). pp: 107-140.
Shoemaker, Robert. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England. London, 2004.
Notes: chap.2 - policing; chap.4 - corporal punishment; chap.5 - breaking the peace; chap.6-7 - killing. The definitive work on popular interaction with the criminal justice system in the eighteenth century. View or add to this citation.
Shoemaker, R. B.. Streets of Shame? The Crowd and Public Punishments in London, 1700-1820. In Devereaux, S., Griffiths, P. (ed), Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English. Palgrave, 2004.
Smith, G. T.. Civilised People Don't Want to See That Kind of Thing: The Decline of Public Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840. In Strange, C. (ed), Qualities of Mercy. Vancouver, 1996.
Transportation
Beattie, J. M.. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
Notes: chap.3-4 - constables; chap.5 - thief-takers; chap.6-7 - judicial procedures, judges and juries, verdicts; chap.6-10 - pardons; chap.9 - transportation View or add to this citation.
Coldham, P. W.. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore, Maryland, 1988.
Devereaux, Simon. In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and the English State, 1770-1830. In Strange, C. (ed), Qualities of Mercy: Justice, Punishment and Discretion. Vancouver, 1996.
Devereaux, Simon. Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation and Convict Resistance in London, 1789. Law and History Review, 25 (2007).
Durston, Gregory. Magwitch's Forbears: Returning from Transportation in Eighteenth-Century London. Australian Journal of Legal History, 9 (2005). pp: 137-58.
Ekirch, R.. Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies 1718-1775. Oxford, 1987.
Herrup, Cynthia. Punishing Pardon: Some Thoughts on the Origins of Penal Transportation. In Devereaux, Simon, Griffiths, Paul (ed), Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English. Basingstoke, 2004. pp: 121-37.
Hirst, John Bradley. Convict Society and its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales. Sydney, 1983.
Hughes, R.. The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868. London, 1987.
Innes, J.. The Role of Transportation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Penal Practice. In Bridge, C. (ed), New Perspectives in Australian History. London, 1990.
Morgan, Gwenda, Rushton, Peter. Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: The Formation of the Criminal Atlantic. Basingstoke, 2004.
Rees, Sian. The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts. New York, 2002.
Rude, George. Protest and Punishment: The Story of the Social and Political Protesters Transported to Australia. Oxford, 1978.
Shaw, A. G. L.. 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.
