Innbundet • 2012 • Engelsk

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

Name: Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
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Av Catharine Arnold

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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...Vis mer

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9780857201164

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2012

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Engelsk

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Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

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