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Chapter 2

Links from the book:

www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm
The History of the Metropolitan Police Service, including a timeline of police history.

www.oldbaileyonline.org/
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online. Records of the trials that have taken place at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1834.

www.institutions.org.uk
Rossbret UK Institutions includes information and links on British institutions including prisons, reformatories, workhouses, asylums, and industrial schools.

www.evergreen.loyola.edu/%7Ecmitchell/
The Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England, history of execution in England, includes contemporary images and last dying speeches.

Further links of interest:

A History of Violence:
home.comcast.net/~burokerl/index.htm
Essays and online forum about methods of torture, and cruel justice that humans have inflicted on each other. Invites submissions.

International association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice:
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~iahccj
Set up in 1978 the association encourages the study of the history of crime and criminal justice by organising conferences and publishing work on the history of crime and criminal justice. The site contains details of all recent conferences and has a principally European and North American focus.

The National Archives:
www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=365
Has a section devoted to sources of research for the history of crime and the law in England and lists all United Kingdom institutes that stock historical texts.

Edwin H. Sutherland Criminology Homepage - Criminology Timeline:
www.crimetheory.com/Stuff/timepage.htm

BBC Social History: Crime and the Victorians:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/society/crime_01.shtml

A comprehensive history of the Metropolitan Police from 1829 to the present:
www.met.police.uk/history/

The history of crime and punishment in Britain 1790-1870:
special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/hang/text.html
With clickable thumbnails to original broadsides.

European centre for the Study of Policing at the Open University:
www2.open.ac.uk/arts/history/policing/index.htm
Including the bibliography on the history of English police begun by Stanley Nash, the Librarian at Rutgers University.

Nottingham Trent University, Galleries of Justice Partnership:
www.ntu.ac.uk/solon
Has links to other groups engaged in historical research into crime and policing. Also contains an ESRC-funded database of newspaper articles on crime and policing from the Victorian period and the twentieth century.