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Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

Hardcover • 2012 • English

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

By Catharine Arnold

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About the book

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout Lond...Show more

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ISBN

9780857201164

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

Format

Hardcover

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