Primary Sources
Crime
- Modern Records Centre: Archives of the Howard League for Penal Reform
- Warwick Records Office: Archives of the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
- The Old Bailey Online
- Nineteenth-century British Newspapers
- Illustrated London News
- The Times
- British Parliamentary Papers
- Ancestry.co.uk: Criminal Records
- Rosalind Crone, 'Crime – and its fabrication: A review of new digital resources in the history of crime’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 14 (2009), pp. 125-133.
Policing
- Warwick Records Office: Archives of the Warwickshire Constabulary
- British Parliamentary Papers
- Robert Bartlett, The Working Life of the Surrey Constabulary
- Resource Material from the Metropolitan Police Archives
- A Guide to the Archives of the Police Forces of England and Wales
Punishment
- Modern Records Centre: Archives of the Howard League for Penal Reform and National Association of Discharged Prisoners Aid Societies
- Warwick Records Office: Archives of the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions and Calendar of Prisoners
- The Old Bailey Online
- Illustrated London News
- The Times
- British Parliamentary Papers
- Ancestry.co.uk: Criminal Records (including: Transportation records; Prison Hulk registers and letter books; Licences of Parole for female convicts)
- Buckinghamshire Record Office: Database of Prisoners in Aylesbury Gaol, 1870s
- Inside Newgate Prison
- Henry Mayhew and John Binney, The Criminal Prisons of London (1862)
- British Library: Dickens in Context, Prisons and Crime
Law
- Warwick Records Office: Archives of the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
- The Old Bailey Online
- Nineteenth-century British Newspapers
- Illustrated London News
- The Times
- British Parliamentary Papers
Representations
- Nineteenth-century British Newspapers
- Illustrated London News
- The Times
- SOLON database of crime reportage
- E. F. Bleiler, Three Victorian Detective Novels
- Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
- Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- British Library: Dickens in Context, Prisons and Crime