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Crone, Rosalind (2012). Violent Victorians: Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

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

Crone, Rosalind; Hoskins, Lesley and Preston, Rebecca (2018). Guide to the Criminal Prisons of Nineteenth-Century England. London Publishing Partnership.

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

Emsley, Clive (2005). Hard Men: Violence in England since 1750. London, UK: Hambledon Press.

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

Emsley, Clive (2018). A Police Officer and a Gentleman: A.F. 'Michael' Wilcox. London: Blue Lamp Books.

Lawrence, Paul; Williams, Chris and Godfrey, Barry (2008). History and Crime. Key Approaches to Criminology. London: Sage.

Sinclair, Georgina (2010). At the end of the line: colonial policing and the imperial endgame 1945-80. Manchester University Press.

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

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

Godfrey, Barry and Lawrence, Paul eds. (2014). Crime and Justice since 1750 (2nd ed). Abingdon: Routledge.

Williams, Chris ed. (2004). Giving the past a future: preserving the heritage of the UK's Criminal Justice System. London, UK: Francis Boutle.

Derry, Caroline (2024). Criminal Law Amendment Act 1922. In: Auchmuty, Rosemary; Rackley, Erika and Takayanagi, Mari eds. Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for the Want of Trying. London: Hart Publishing (In Press).

Emsley, Clive (2018). ‘Du concept à l’institution: Les spécifités du mot “police” en langue anglaise’. In: Cicchini, Marco and Denis, Vincent eds. Le Nœud gordien. Police et justice: des Lumières à l’État libéral (1750-1850). Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland: Georg, pp. 47–69.

Gaskarth, Jamie (2022). Culture, Diplomacy and Power Transition. In: Knudsen, Tonny Brems and Navari, Cornelia eds. Power Transition in the Anarchical Society: Rising Powers, Institutional Change and the New World Order. Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 203–230.

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Lawrence, Paul (2023). A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age. In: Emsley, Clive and McDougall, Sara eds. A Global History of Crime and Punishment, Volume 6. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Lawrence, Paul (2023). Crime and its Control in the Twentieth Century. In: Lawrence, Paul ed. A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern age. Global History of Crime and Punishment, 6. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1–22.

Taylor, Dan (2017). Not that Serious? The Investigation and Trial of the Angry Brigade, 1967-1972. In: Smith, Evan and Worley, Matthew eds. Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 30–47.

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Williams, Chris A (2023). Counting and Experiencing Crime in the Twentieth Century. In: Lawrence, Paul ed. A global history of crime and punishment in the modern age. A global history of crime and punishment, Vol. 6. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 23–45.

Crone, Rosalind (2018). Educating the labouring poor in nineteenth-century Suffolk. Social History, 43(2) pp. 161–185.

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Derry, Caroline (2022). The ‘legal’ in socio-legal history: Woods and Pirie v Cumming Gordon. Journal of Law and Society, 49(4) pp. 778–799.

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Earle, Rod (2018). Convict Criminology in England: Developments and Dilemmas. British Journal of Criminology, 58(6) pp. 1499–1516.

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Earle, Rod and Davies, Bill (2020). Glimpses across 50 years of prison life from members of British Convict Criminology. Prison Service Journal(250) pp. 13–19.

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Edwards, Julian and Buckley, Paul (2022). Risk of work-related violence in England and Wales. Occupational Medicine, 72(1) pp. 25–27.

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Lawrence, Paul (2017). The Vagrancy Act (1824) and the Persistence of Pre-emptive Policing in England since 1750. British Journal of Criminology, 57(3) pp. 513–531.

Lawrence, Paul (2020). Policing, ‘Science’ and the Curious Case of Photo-FIT. The Historical Journal, 63(4) pp. 1007–1031.

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Murphy, Tony (2022). Penal Transportation from Britain to Australia, 1788 to 1868: four phases of penal administration and experimentation. Journal on European History of Law, 12(2) pp. 70–78.

Taylor, Dan (2015). The Party's Over? The Angry Brigade, the Counterculture, and the British New Left, 1967-1972. The Historical Journal, 58(3) pp. 877–900.

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