Lyons, Lewis.
The History of Punishment:
(Amber Books, 2003).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A7967
Keywords: 0954435621, history, crime, world, criminals, punishment, retribution, deterrence, reform, incapacitation, laws, law, legal, imprisonment, prisons, gaols, jails, corporal punishment, death penalty, Sharia Law, Manu, tang code, shaming, medieval, mediaeval, prison reform, open prisons, community service, hannurabi, the pilliory, flogging, hanging, drawing, quartering, guillotines, bastinado, crucifixion, lethal injection, electric chair, torture
Price £6.00.
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Lytton, Constance.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
(Virago, rpt, 1988).
The stirring testimony of a Suffragette. With an introduction by Midge McKenzie. Paperback. Light soiling to front covers, otherwise good+. xiv + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-C1841
Keywords: 0860686825, Votes for Women, suffrage, suffragettes, women's history, woman suffrage, Edwardian, prisons, prison, Constance Lytton, Jane Warton, twentieth century, politics, women's rights, Britain, British, England, English, women's movement, cells, gaols, police, crime, law and order, protest, Holloway, Walton
Price £17.00.
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Sengoopta, Chandak.
Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India
(Macmillan, 2003).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xv + 234pp. Order No. NSBK-A10503
Keywords: 0333989163, fingerprints, criminals, crime, India, Indians, Asia, Asians, colonies, colonial, Chandak Sengoopta, imprints, identity, identification, fingerprinting, Sir William James Herscel, Harry Jackson, burglars, Old Bailey, Begal, history
Price £9.00.
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Smith, Captain Alexander.
A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen: Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes
(Routledge, rpt, popular edition, 1933).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings, wear to edges, otherwise good and solid in red library binding. xxii + 607pp. Order No. NSBK-A14952
Keywords: B00087RZMQ, robbery, highwaymen, history, crime, thieves,
Price £45.00.
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Wilson, Colin.
World Famous Gaslight Murder:
(Magpie Books, 1992).
Written with Damon and Rowan Wilson. Paperback. Covers creased, otherwise good. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-A5730
Keywords: 1854871536, gaslight murder, killing, police, policeman, policemen, Ratcliffe Highway Murders, John Paul Forster, Anna Zwanziger, Professor Webster, Bender, Charley Ross, railways, Australia, America, detectives, fingerprints, fingerprinting, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, crime, criminals, laws, legal
Price £5.00.
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Coomes, David.
Dorothy L. Sayers: a Careless Rage for Life
(Lion Books, 1992).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in dw. 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C1382
Keywords: 073240522X, Dorothy L. Sayers, biography, crime writer, literature, novel, novelist, woman writer, women writers
Price £4.00.
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Normann, Roderick de.
For Fuhrer and Fatherland: SS Muder and Mayhem in Wartime Britain
(Wrens Park, rpt., 1998).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper with sticker mark. vii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A12580
Keywords: 0905778197, Fuhrer, Nazis, Germans, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, SS, murders, mayhem, crimes, criminals
Price £8.00.
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Carpenter, Mary.
Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders
(Woburn Press, Augustus M. Kelley, new impression, 1969).
A re-issue of the 1851 text. Hardback. Very good in spine-faded, lightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-C13605
Keywords: B0010Y287S, crime, reformatory schools, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, childhood, education, children, schooling, Mary Carpenter, juvenile offenders, poverty, destitution, social history, free day schools, ragged schools, gaols, prisons
Price £32.00.
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Plowden, Alison.
The Case of Eliza Armstrong: "a Child of 13 Bought for £5"
(BBC, 1974).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly browned, slightly edgeworn, slightly torn dustwrapper, with a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C1033
Keywords: 9780563108733 prostitution, children child abuse, Victorian, white slave trade, prostitutes, BBC, nineteenth century, crime, women, history, prostitute, vice-trade, vice trade, vice, 19th century, child prostitute
Price £9.00.
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McHugh, Paul.
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform:
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Good in dustwrapper. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-C3110
Keywords: 0856649384, prostitution, crime, social reform , Victorian, Contagious Diseases Act, Josephine Butler, Social Purity, Britain, British, England, English, history, prostitutes, prostitute, nineteenth century, temperance
Price £38.95.
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