Key Reading

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, chapter 5
  

Seminar Reading

• John E Archer, 'Poaching gangs and violence: the urban-rural divide in nineteenth-century Lancashire', British Journal of Criminology, 39 (1999)
  
• John E. Archer, By a Flash and a Scare: Arson, Animal-Maiming and Poaching in East Anglia
  
• J P Dunbabin, Rural Discontent in Nineteenth Century Britain
  
• B J Davey, Lawless and Immoral: Policing a County Town
  
• Drew Gray, ​Londons Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City
  
• Carl Griffin, 'The mystery of the fires: Captain Swing as Incendiarist', Southern History, 32 (2010)
  
• Carl Griffin, 'The violent Captain Swing', Past and Present, 209 (2010)
  
• Eric Hobsbawm, 'The Machine breakers', Past and Present, 1 (1952)
  
• Eric Hobsbawm and George Rude, Captain Swing
  
• David Jones, Crime, Protest, Community and Police
  
• Peter King, 'The impact of urbanisation on murder rates and the geography of homicide', Historical Journal, 53 (2010)
  
• Peter King, 'Urbanisation, rising homicide rates and the geography of lethal violence in Scotland', History, 96 (2011)
  
• Katrina Navickas, 'Luddism, Incendiarism and the defence of rural "task-scapes" in 1812', Northern History, 48 (2011)
  
• Harvey Osborne and Michael WInstanley, 'Rural and urban poaching in Victorian England', Rural History, 17 (2006)
  
• David Philips, Crime and Authority in Victorian England
  
• Steve Poole, 'A lasting and saluatory warning: incendiarism, rural order and England last scene of crime execution', Rural History​, 19 (2008)
  
• John Rule, 'The manifold causes of rural crime', in John Rule (ed.), Outside the Law
  
• J J Tobias, Crime and Industrial Society
  
• R A E Wells, 'Sheep-rustling in Yorkshire in the age of the industrial and agricultural revolutions', Northern History, 20 (1984)
  

Questions

• Why did contemporaries consider crime was mainly a problem for industrial cities in the Victorian period?
  
• Were rural crimes different? And did they require an alternative model of policing?
  
• Was criminal acitivty (such as arson) a symptom of class warfare in the countryside?
  
• Is it possible to map a 'geography' of crime?
  
• What is the relationship between crime and environment?