Some previous topics

• Infanticide and morality
• Women and their treatment by courts
• Juvenile delinquents and the Temperance movement
• Development of the prison system
• Changing perceptions of the black population
• Criminally insane
• Sensation novels
• Women and insanity
• Serialisation of crime novels
• Gender and transportation
• Masculinity and violence to women
• Disease and crime (focus on cholera)
• 'Ticket of Leave' system
• Upper-class homosexuality
• Insanity plea
• Prison diets
• Female gangs
• Appeals against transportation
• Garrotting
• Poaching and rural crime
• Women police
• London gangs
• Dickens and crime