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

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

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

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

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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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: Bloomsbury Publishing.

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

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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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, 6. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 23–45.

Williams, Chris A. (2007). Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline of municipal independence 1914–64. In: Moore, James R. and Smith, John eds. Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780–1950. Historical Urban Studies Series. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 155–175.

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.