Victorian Crime

Victorian Crime

The average person tends to believe the Victorian Period was austere, prim and proper, with fixed social classes and crime as depicted by Dickens and accounts of Jack the Ripper. These five books provide substance that both prove and disprove many assumptions.

Abelson, Elaine S. - When Ladies Go A-Thieving~Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store

Stevens, Mark - Broadmoor Revealed~Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

Surridge, Lisa - Bleak Houses~Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction

Taylor, David - Policing the Victorian Town~The Development of the Police in Middlesbrough c. 1840-1914

Wiener, Martin J. - Men of Blood


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