Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900

Clive Emsley is Professor in the History Department at the Open University. He was elected president of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice in 1995 and again in 1998. He has maintained a research interest in the revolutionary and Napoleonic period but since the early 1980s his work has focused primarily on the history of crime and policing. He is Director of the European Centre for the Study of Policing.

List of tables and figures Preface and acknowledgements to the third edition Abbreviations used in notes 1. Introduction: crime and the law 2. The statistical map 3. Class perceptions 4. Gender perceptions 5. Environmental perceptions 6. Fiddles, perks and pilferage 7. The criminal class and professional criminals 8. Prosecutors and the courts 9. Detection and prevention: the old police and the new 10. Punishment and reformation 11. Concluding remarks