Publications

Members and visiting fellows of the centre have published widely on the history of crime, policing and justice.

Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Socities

The members of the Centre have had a long association with this journal of criminal justice history, currently edited by Paul Lawrence. The journal homepage is here and the link to content via JSTOR is here.

Series

Ros Crone is the co-editor the series, 'States, People, and the History of Social Change' published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

Books

Relevant books published by current and former members of the Centre include:

Susan Woodall, Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 (Palgrave Macmillan 2023)

Rosalind Crone, Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Caroline Derry, Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Regulation in England and Wales (Palgrave, 2020)

Clive Emsley, Exporting British Policing During the Second World War (Bloomsbury, 2017)

William Sheehan, A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921 (THP Ireland, 2017)

Chris A. Williams, Police Control Systems in Britain, 1775-1975: From Parish Constable to National Computer (Manchester University Press, 2014)

Clive Emsley, Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914 (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Rosalind Crone, Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century England (Manchester University Press, 2012)

John Carter Wood, The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (Manchester University Press, 2012)

Georgina Sinclair, At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame, 1945-1980 (Manchester University Press, 2010)

Major Edited Collections

Members of the Centre have been involved in the production of several, multi-volume collections on the history of policing.

Clive Emsley began (and Sara McDougall continued) the general editorship of A Global History of Crime and Punishment, published posthumously by Bloomsbury in 2023. Paul Lawrence edited Vol. 6, A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age.

Rosalind Crone authored (with Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston) the comprehensive Guide to the Criminal Prisons of Nineteenth-Century England (London Publishing Partnership 2018)

Paul Lawrence served as general editor for The Making of the Modern Police, 1780-1914, a six-volume collection of primary sources (with notes and commentaries) published by Pickering & Chatto in 2014. Volumes included: Reforming the Police, edited by Robert M. Morris; Policing the Poor, edited by Paul Lawrence; Policing Entertainment, edited by Rosalind Crone; and Policing Public Order and Politics, edited by Janet Clark.

Clive Emsley served as general editor for The History of Policing, a four volume collection each of which contains essays from leading criminal justice historians. Published by Ashgate in 2011, volumes included: Theories and Origins of the Modern Police, edited by Clive Emsley; The New Police in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Lawrence; Police and Policing in the Twentieth Century, edited by Chris A. Williams; and Globalising British Policing, edited by Georgina Sinclair.

For lists of further publications produced by current and former individual members of the centre, including books, articles and chapters, use the following links to access profiles on Open Research Online: