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Narratives of Crime in the “Long Eighteenth Century” - Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. By Gillian Spraggs. London: Pimlico, 2001. Pp. x+372. £12.50 (paper). - Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law. By Hal Gladfelder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+281. $42.50 (cloth). - Policing and Punishment in London, 1660–1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. By J. M. Beattie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xix+491. $74.00 (cloth). - The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London. By Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xii+346. $35.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Robert B. Shoemaker
Robert B. Shoemaker
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 272 - 277
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1 Morgan, Gwenda and Rushton, Peter, Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718–1800 (London, 1998)Google Scholar; King, Peter, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740–1820 (Oxford, 2000)Google Scholar.

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3 The digitization of the Old Bailey trial accounts has not only made them accessible online, but it also allows them to be quickly linked to related manuscript and printed sources. See http://www.oldbaileyonline.org.