London’s Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720–c. 1930
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 239
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137313911
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781349338450
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Race, religion and community
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book offers an original analysis of the criminal underworld, breaking new ground by exploring the concept of the underworld from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This is the first academic study to consider both broad chronological change and more focused micro-studies. The research is anchored in archival materials collected over a decade (much of it pre-digitally), including court records, biography, parliamentary archives, prison records, newspaper and periodicals, Census, and BMD records. It addresses questions about the changing nature of criminal networks, the construction of the idea of the ‘underworld’, and the continuities and changes in its representation.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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