Key Reading

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, chapters 3 and 4

Further Reading

• Kenneth Brown, 'Nonconformity and trade unionism : the Sheffield outrages of 1866', in Eugenio Biagini and Alastair Reid, Currents of Radicalism
• Steve Fielding, The Irish Catholics of Manchester and Salford, 1890-1939
• Sheridan Gilley, 'Sheridan Gilley, 'English Catholic attitudes to Irish Catholics', Immigrants and Minorities, 2007
• Ursual Henriques, 'Lyons versus Thomas : the Jewess abduction case (1869)', Jewish Historical Studies, 29 (1988 for 1982-6) 267-80
• Louise Jackson, '"Singing birds as well as soap suds" : the Salvation Army's work with sexually abused girls in Edwardian England', Gender & History, 2000

• Anne-Marie Kilday and Katherine Watson, 'Infanticide, religion and community in the British Isles 1720-1920', Family and Community History, 11:2 (2008) 84-99

• Frank Neal, 'A criminal profile of the Liverpool Irish', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1991
• Roger Swift, 'The outcast Irish in the British Victorian city : problems and perspectives', Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 25, No. 99 (May, 1987), pp. 264-276

• Roger Swift, 'Heroes or Villains?: The Irish, Crime, and Disorder in Victorian England', Albion, 29:3 (1997), 399-421.

• Avram Taylor, 'Are you a Billy, or a Dan, or an old tin can?' : street violence and relations between Catholics, Jews and Protestants in the Gorbals during the inter-war years', Urban History, 2014

Questions

• Were particular ethnic/religious groups ostracised from Victorian society?
  
• What caused sectarian violence?
• How did communities (and religious groups) view infanticide?
• What were the responses of religious groups to crime and criminals?