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This bibliography contains only works in English, and consequently its emphasis is on research within the British islands. Even for English-language materials, it does not pretend to be comprehensive. It contains only works that are about 'crime' and closely related topics or contain substantial discussions of the topic. But hopefully it will be useful within its limits.

Each entry is listed only once (excepting edited collections). The categories I have chosen are intended to provide a guide to the main focus of a work, which should be more helpful to users than a single alphabetical listing, but inevitably there are many works that are difficult to classify or cover more than one possible category.

I have not previously included works specifically on witchcraft, because there existed a superb online bibliographical resource for this (Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and America Bibliography). However, this has been unavailable for some time, so I am adding a section on witchcraft. But it will be only a fairly basic listing for the time being.

Barnes, T G and Hassell Smith, A. 'Justices of the peace from 1558 to 1668: a revised list of sources'. Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 32 (1959).

Beattie, J M. 'Towards a study of crime in 18th-century England: a note on indictments', in Paul Fritz and David Williams (eds), The triumph of culture: 18th century erspectives. Toronto, 1972.

Beattie, J M. 'Judicial records and the measurement of crime in eighteenth-century England', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

Brinkworth, E R. 'The study and use of archdeacons' court records: illustrated from the Oxford records (1566-1759)'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th ser, 25 (1943).

Cockburn, J S. 'Early modern assize records as historical evidence'. Journal of the Society of Archivists, 5 (1974-77).

Hines, W D. English legal history: a bibliography and guide to the literature. New York, 1990.

King, Peter. 'Locating histories of crime: a bibliographical study'. British Journal of Criminology, 39 (1999).

King, W J. 'Untapped resources for social historians: court leet records'. Social History, 15 (1981-2).

Knafla, L A. 'Crime and criminal justice: a critical bibliography', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England 1550-1800.

Knafla, L A. Great Britain and Ireland : a bibliography on the history of crime and criminal justice. 1992.

Parry, Glyn. A guide to the records of Great Sessions in Wales. Aberystwyth, 1995.

Rousseau, Xavier. 'Criminality and criminal justice history in Europe, 1250-1850: a select bibliography'. Criminal Justice History , 14 (1993).

Shoemaker, Robert. 'Using quarter sessions records as evidence for the study of crime and criminal justice'. Archives, 20 (1993).

Bailey, V. 'Bibliographical essay: crime, criminal justice and authority in England'. Bulletin for the Society for the Study of Labour History, 40 (1980).

Brewer, John and Styles, John. 'Introduction', in Brewer and Styles (eds), An ungovernable people.

Chapman, Terry L. 'Crime in eighteenth-century England: E P Thompson and the conflict theory of crime'. Criminal Justice History, 1 (1980).

Curtis, Timothy. 'Explaining crime in early modern England'. Criminal Justice History, 1 (1980).

Diederiks, Herman. 'Quality and quantity in historical research in criminality and criminal justice: the case of Leiden in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'. Historical Social Research, 15 (1990).

Elton, G R. 'Crime and the historian', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England, 1550-1800.

Emsley, Clive. 'Crime and criminal justice in the European countryside: some questions for comparison'. Criminal Justice History, 14 (1993).

Emsley, Clive. 'Albion's felonious attractions: reflections upon the history of crime in England', in Emsley and Knafla (eds), Crime history and histories of crime.

Emsley, Clive and Knafla, Louis A (eds). Crime history and histories of crime: studies in the historiography of crime and criminal justice. Westport and London, 1996.

Hay, Douglas. 'The criminal prosecution in England and its historians'. Modern Law Review, 47 (1984).

Hoffer, Peter C. 'Counting crime in premodern England and America'. Historical Methods, 14 (1981).

Innes, Joanna and Styles, John. 'The crime wave: recent writing on crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century England', in Adrian Wilson (ed), Rethinking social history: English society 1570-1920 and its interpretation. Manchester, 1993.

Jenkins, Philip. 'Into the upperworld? Law, crime and punishment in English society'. Social History 12 (1987).

Linebaugh, Peter. '(Marxist) social history and (conservative) legal history: a reply to Professor Langbein'. New York University Law Review, 60 (1985).

McMullan, John L. 'Crime, law and order in early modern England'. British Journal of Criminology, 27 (1987).

Nye, Robert. 'Crime in modern societies: research strategies for historians'. Journal of Social History, 11 (1977-78).

O'Brien, Patricia. 'Crime and punishment as historical problem'. Journal of Social History, 11 (1977-78).

Post, J B. 'Crime in later medieval England: some historiographical limitations'. Continuity and Change, 2 (1987).

Rousseaux, Xavier. 'From medieval cities to national states, 1350-1850: the historiography of crime and criminal justice in Europe', in Emsley and Knafla (eds), Crime history and histories of crime.

Sharpe, J A. 'The history of crime in late medieval and early modern England: a review of the field'. Social History 7 (1982).

Sharpe, J A. 'The history of crime in England c.1300-1914: an overview of recent publications'. British Journal of Criminology, 28 (1988).

Shoemaker, Robert B. 'The "crime wave" revisited: crime, law enforcement and punishment in Britain, 1650-1900'. Historical Journal, 34 (1991).

Soman, Alfred. 'Deviance and criminal justice in western Europe, 1300-1800: an essay in structure'. Criminal Justice History 1 (1980).

Spierenburg, Pieter. 'Theory and the history of criminal justice', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

Other history journals which frequently include relevant articles and reviews (a very partial list)

Bellamy, J G. Criminal law and society in late medieval and Tudor England. Gloucester, 1984.

Brewer, John and Styles, John (eds). An ungovernable people: the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. London, 1980.

Brooks, Christopher and Lobban, Michael (eds). Communities and courts in Britain, 1150-1900. London, 1997.

Cockburn, J S. Calendar of Assize Records, Home Circuit Indictments, Elizabeth I and James I: Introduction. London, 1985.

Davison, Lee et al (eds), Stilling the grumbling hive: the response to social and economic problems in England, 1689-1750. Stroud, 1992.

Evans, Richard J (ed). The German underworld: deviants and outcasts in German history. London, 1988.

Fletcher, Anthony and Stevenson, John (eds). Order and disorder in early modern England. Cambridge, 1985.

Gatrell, V A C et al (eds). Crime and the law: the social history of crime in western Europe since 1500. London, 1980.

Griffiths, Paul et al (eds). The experience of authority in early modern England. Basingstoke, 1996.

Harris, Tim (ed). The politics of the excluded, c.1500-1850. Basingstoke, 2001.

Hay, Douglas et al. Albion's fatal tree: crime and society in eighteenth-century England. London, 1975.

Howell, David and Morgan, Kenneth (eds). Crime, protest and police in modern British society. Cardiff, 1999.

Knafla, Louis A. Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada. Waterloo, Ontario, 1981.

McLynn, Frank. Crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England. London, 1989.

Muir, Edward and Ruggiero, Guido (eds). History from crime. Baltimore and London, 1994.

Pihlajamaki, Heikki. Theatres of power: social control and criminality in historical perspective. Helsinki, 1991.

Rule, John. Outside the law: studies in crime and order 1650-1850 Exeter, 1982.

Smith, G T, Allyson N May and Simon Devereaux (eds). Criminal justice in the old world and the new. Toronto, 1998.

Walker, Nigel. Crime and insanity in England. Volume 1: the historical perspective. Edinburgh, 1968.

Weisser, Michael. Crime and punishment in early modern Europe. Brighton, 1979.

These works are based primarily on local archives, usually focused on a particular geographical territory.

Beattie, J M. 'The pattern of crime in England, 1660-1800'. Past and Present, 62 (1974). (Surrey and Sussex)

Beattie, J M. 'Crime and the courts in Surrey, 1736-1753', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England 1550-1800.

Beattie, J M. Crime and the courts in England, 1660-1800. Princeton, 1986. (Surrey and Sussex)

Beattie, John. 'London crime and the making of the "Bloody Code", 1689-1718', in Davison et al (eds), Stilling the grumbling hive.

Brackett, J K. Criminal justice and crime in late renaissance Florence, 1537-1609. Cambridge, 1992.

Cameron, Iain A. Crime and repression in the Auvergne and the Guyenne 1720-1790. Cambridge, 1982.

Castan, Nicole. 'Crime and justice in Languedoc: the critical years (1750-1790)'. Criminal Justice History, 1 (1980).

Cockburn, J S. 'The nature and incidence of crime in England 1559-1625: a preliminary survey', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England 1550-1800. (south-east England)

Curtis, T C. 'Quarter Sessions appearances and their background: a seventeenth-century regional study', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England 1550-1800.

Davey, B J. Rural crime in the eighteenth century: north Lincolnshire 1740-80. 1994.

Davies, Stephen J. 'The courts and the Scottish legal system 1600-1747: the case of Stirlingshire', in Gatrell et al (eds), Crime and the law.

Diederiks, Herman. 'Patterns of criminality and law enforcement during the ancien regime: the Dutch case'. Criminal Justice History, 1 (1980).

Garnham, Neal. The courts, crime and the criminal law in Ireland, 1692-1760. Blackrock, co. Dublin, 1996.

Greenberg, Douglas. Crime and law enforcement in the colony of New York 1691-1776. Ithaca and London, 1976.

Henry, B. The Dublin hanged: crime, law enforcement and punishment in late eighteenth-century Dublin. Blackrock, 1994.

Herrup, Cynthia B. The common peace: participation and the criminal law in seventeenth-century England. Cambridge, 1987. (Sussex)

Hook, Judith A. 'Justice, authority and the creation of the Ancien Regime in Italy'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,34 (1984).

Humphreys Melvin. The crisis of community, Montgomeryshire 1680-1815. Cardiff, 1996.

Ingram, Martin. 'Communities and courts: law and disorder in early-seventeenth-century Wiltshire', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England, 1550-1800.

Johansen, Jens Chr V. 'Falster and Elsinore, 1680-1705: a comparative study of rural and urban crime'. Social History 15 (1990).

Kamen, Henry. 'Public authority and popular crime: banditry in Valencia 1660-1714'. Journal of European Economic History 3 (1974).

King, Peter. Crime, justice and discretion in England, 1740-1820. Oxford, 2000.

Knafla, Louis A. ' "Sin of all sorts swarmeth": criminal litigation in an English county in the early seventeenth century', in E W Ives, and A H Manchester (eds), Law, litigants and the legal profession. London, 1983. (Kent)

Lenman, Bruce and Parker, Geoffrey. 'Crime and control in Scotland, 1500-1800'. History Today, (January 1980).

Mercer, Sarah. 'Crime in late-seventeenth-century Yorkshire: an exception to a national pattern?'. Northern History, 27 (1991).

Mogenson, N W. 'Crimes and punishments in eighteenth-century France: the example of the pays d'Auge'. Histoire Sociale/Social History 10 (1977).

Monter, E William. 'Crime and punishment in Calvin's Geneva, 1562'. Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, 64 (1973).

Morgan, Gwenda and Rushton, Peter. Rogues, thieves and the rule of law: the problem of law enforcement in north east England, 1718-1800. London, 1998.

Österberg, Eva. 'Social arena or theatre of power? The courts, crime and the early modern state in Sweden', in Pihlajamaki (ed), Theatres of power.

Osterberg, Eva and Lindstrom, Dag (eds). Crime and social control in medieval and early modern Swedish towns. Uppsala, 1988.

Pike, Ruth. 'Crime and punishment in sixteenth-century Spain'. Journal of European Economic History, 5 (1976).

Porter, J H. 'Crime in the countryside', in G E Mingay (ed), The unquiet countryside. London, 1989.

Powell, Nia M W. 'Crime and the community in Denbighshire during the 1590s: the evidence of the records of the court of Great Sessions', in J Gwynfor Jones (ed), Class, community and culture in Tudor Wales. Cardiff, 1989.

Ruff, J R. Crime, justice and public order in old regime France: the senechaussees of Libourne and Bazas, 1696-1789. London, 1984.

Samaha, Joel. Law and order in historical perspective: the case of Elizabethan Essex. NY and London, 1974.

Semmes, Raphael. Crime and punishment in early Maryland. (1938) Baltimore, 1996.

Sharpe, J A. 'Crime and delinquency in an Essex parish, 1600-1640', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England, 1550-1800.

Sharpe, J A. Crime in seventeenth-century England: a county study. Cambridge, 1983. (Essex)

Shoemaker, Robert B. Prosecution and punishment: petty crime and the law in London and rural Middlesex, c.1660-1725. Cambridge, 1991.

Thompson, I A A. 'A map of crime in sixteenth-century Spain'. Economic History Review, 2nd series, 21 (1968).

Wegert, K. Popular culture, crime and social control in eighteenth-century Wurttemberg. Stuttgart, 1994.

Weisser, Michael. 'Crime and punishment in early modern Spain', in Gatrell et al (eds), Crime and the law.

Brewer, John. A sentimental murder: love and madness in the eighteenth century. London, 2004.

Cressy, David. Agnes Bowker's cat: travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford, 2000.

Darnton, Robert. The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history. 1984.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Society and culture in early modern France. (1965) Cambridge, 1987.

Dolan, Frances E. Dangerous familiars: representations of domestic crime in England 1550-1750. Ithaca and London, 1994.

Gaskill, Malcolm. Crime and mentalities in early modern England. Cambridge, 2000.

Shapiro, Barbara. Probability and certainty in seventeenth-century England. Princeton, 1983.

Ginzburg, Carlo. The cheese and the worms: the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller. Harmondsworth, 1982.

Baker, J H. 'The refinement of English criminal jurisprudence, 1500-1848', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

Beattie, J M. 'The royal pardon and criminal procedure'. Historical Papers, 1987.

Beattie, J M. Policing and punishment in London 1660-1750: urban crime and the limits of terror. Oxford, 2001.

Gaskill, Malcolm. 'The displacement of Providence: policing and prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England'. Continuity and Change, 11 (1996).

Hay, Douglas. 'Property, authority and the criminal law', in Hay et al, Albion's fatal tree.

Hay, Douglas. 'Crime and justice in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England'. Crime and Justice, 2 (1980).

Hay, Douglas. 'The meanings of the criminal law in Quebec, 1764-1774', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

Hay, Douglas and Snyder, Francis (eds). Policing and prosecution in Britain 1750-1850. Oxford, 1989.

Herrup, Cynthia. 'Law and morality in seventeenth-century England'. Past and Present, 106 (1985).

Jones, David J V. 'Life and death in eighteenth-century Wales: a note'. Welsh History Review 10 (1980-81).

Jones, J. G. Law, order and government in Caernarvonshire, 1558-1640. Cardiff, 1996.

Jones, John G. 'The Welsh language in local government: justices of the peace and the courts of Quarter Sessions c.1536-1800' in G. H. Jenkins (ed), The Welsh language before the Industrial Revolution. Cardiff, 1997.

King, P J R. 'Prosecution associations and their impact in eighteenth-century Essex', in Hay and Snyder (eds), Policing and prosecution in Britain.

Langbein, John H. Prosecuting crime in the renaissance: England, France, Germany. Cambridge, MA, 1974.

Paley, Ruth. 'Thief-takers in London in the age of the McDaniel gang c.1745-1754', in Hay and Snyder (eds), Policing and prosecution in Britain.

Philips, David. ' "A new engine of power and authority": the institutionalisation of law-enforcement in England 1780-1830', in Gatrell et al (eds), Crime and the law.

Philips, David. 'Good men to associate and bad men to conspire: associations for the prosecution of felons in England 1760-1860', in Hay and Snyder (eds), Policing and prosecution in Britain.

Radzinowicz, Leon. A history of criminal law and its administration from 1750. Vol 1: the movement for reform. London, 1948.

Rawlings, Philip. Crime and power: a history of criminal justice 1688-1998. London, 1999.

Samaha, J. 'The recognizance in Elizabethan law enforcement'. American Journal of Legal History, 25 (1981).

Soman, Alfred. 'Criminal jurisprudence in ancien-regime France: the Parlement of Paris in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

Styles, John. 'Sir John Fielding and the problem of criminal investigation in eighteenth-century England'. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 33 (1983).

Styles, John. 'Print and policing: crime advertising in eighteenth-century provincial England', in Hay and Snyder (eds), Policing and prosecution in Britain.

Suggett, Richard. 'The Welsh language and the court of Great Sessions', in Geraint H Jenkins (ed), The Welsh language before the Industrial Revolution. Cardiff, 1997.

Brooks, C W. Pettyfoggers and vipers of the commonwealth: the lower branch of the legal profession in early modern England. Cambridge, 1986.

Cockburn, J S. 'Seventeenth-century clerks of assize'. American Journal of Legal History, 13 (1969).

Dodd, A H. ' "Tuning" the Welsh bench, 1680'. National Library of Wales Journal, 6 (1949-50).

Fletcher, A. J. 'Honour, reputation and local officeholding in Elizabethan and Stuart England', in Fletcher and Stevenson (eds), Order and disorder in early modern England.

Fletcher, Anthony. Reform in the provinces: the government of Stuart England. New Haven and London, 1986.

Glassey, Lionel. Politics and the appointment of justices of the peace, 1675-1720. Oxford, 1979.

Goldie, M. 'The unacknowledge republic: officeholding in early modern England', in Harris (ed), The politics of the excluded.

Jones, J G. 'Caernarvonshire administration: the activities of the justices of the peace, 1603-1660'. Welsh History Review, 5 (1970-71).

Kent, Joan. 'The English village constable, 1580-1642: the nature and dilemmas of the office'. Journal of British Studies, 20 (1981).

Kent, Joan. The English village constable, 1580-1642: a social and administrative study. Oxford, 1986.

Lewis, T H. 'Attendances of justices and grand jurors at the courts of Quarter Sessions in Wales, 16th-18th century'. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1942).

Phillips, J R S. The justices of the peace in Wales and Monmouthshire 1541 to 1689. Cardiff, 1975.

Rosenheim, James. 'Robert Doughty of Hanworth: a Restoration magistrate'. Norfolk Archaeology, 38 (1983).

Styles, John. 'An eighteenth-century magistrate as detective: Samuel Lister of Little Horton'. Bradford Antiquary, n.s. 47 (1982).

Wrightson, Keith. 'Two concepts of order: justices, constables and jurymen in seventeenth-century England', in Brewer and Styles (eds), An ungovernable people.

Baker, J H. 'Criminal courts and procedure at common law 1550-1800', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England.

Bannister, Jerry. 'Surgeons and criminal justice in eighteenth-century Newfoundland', in G T Smith et al (eds), Criminal justice in the old world and the new.

Chapman, Murray Ll. 'A sixteenth-century trial for felony in the court of Great Sessions for Montgomeryshire'. Montgomeryshire Collections, 78 (1990).

Cockburn, J S. 'Trial by the book? Fact and theory in the criminal process, 1558-1625', in J H Baker (ed), Legal records and the historian. London, 1978.

Cockburn, J. S. 'Twelve silly men? The trial jury at Assizes, 1560-1670', in Cockburn and Green (eds), Twelve good men and true.

Cockburn, J S and Green, Thomas A (eds). Twelve good men and true: the criminal jury in England, 1200-1800. Princeton, 1988.

Green, Thomas A. 'The jury and the English law of homicide'. Michigan Law Review, 74 (1976).

Green, Thomas A. Verdict according to conscience: perspectives on the English criminal trial jury, 1200-1800. Chicago and London, 1985.

Hay, Douglas. 'Prosecution and power: malicious prosecutions in the English courts, 1750-1850', in Hay and Snyder (eds), Policing and prosecution in Britain.

Hay, Douglas. 'The class composition of the palladium of liberty: trial jurors in the eighteenth century', in Cockburn and Green (eds), Twelve good men and true.

King, Peter. 'Decision-makers and decision-making in the English criminal law, 1750-1800'. Historical Journal 27 (1984).

King, P J R. ' "Illiterate plebeians, easily misled": jury composition, experience and behaviour in Essex, 1735-1815', in Cockburn and Green (eds), Twelve good men and true.

Landau, Norma. 'Appearance at the Quarter Sessions of eighteenth-century Middlesex'. London Journal, 23 (1998).

Langbein, John H. 'The criminal trial before the lawyers'. University of Chicago Law Review 45 (1976).

Langbein, John H. 'Shaping the eighteenth-century criminal trial: a view from the Ryder sources'. University of Chicago Law Review, 50 (1983).

Lawson, P G. 'Lawless juries? The composition and behaviour of Hertfordshire juries, 1573-1624' in Cockburn and Green (eds), Twelve good men and true.

Morrill, J S. The Cheshire grand jury 1624-1649: a social and administrative study. Leicester, 1976.

Oldham, James C. 'On pleading the belly: a history of the jury of matrons'. Criminal Justice History, 6 (1985).

Oldham, James C. 'Truth-telling in the eighteenth-century English courtroom'. Law and History Review, 12 (1994).

Phillips, Jim. 'Halifax [Canada] juries in the eighteenth century', in G T Smith et al (eds), Criminal justice in the old world and the new.

Roberts, S K. 'Initiative and control: the Devon quarter sessions grand jury, 1649-70'. Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 57 (1984).

Roberts, S K. 'Juries and the middling sort: recruitment and performance at Devon Quarter Sessions, 1649-1670', in Cockburn and Green (eds), Twelve good men and true.

Cockburn, J S. 'Punishment and brutalization in the English Enlightenment'. Law and History Review, 12 (1994).

Diederiks, Herman. 'Punishment during the Ancien Regime: the case of the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

Dulmen, Richard van. Theatre of horror: crime and punishment in early modern Germany. 1988.

Ekirch, A Roger. 'Bound for America: a profile of British convicts transported to the colonies, 1718-1775'. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 42 (1985).

Evans, Richard J. Rituals of retribution: capital punishment in Germany 1600-1987. Oxford, 1996.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison. Harmondsworth, 1979.

Gatrell, V A C. The hanging tree: execution and the English people, 1770-1868. Oxford, 1994.

Harvey, A D. 'Burning women at the stake in eighteenth-century England'. Criminal Justice History, 11 (1990).

Innes, Joanna. 'The King's Bench prison in the later eighteenth century: law, authority and order in a London debtors' prison', in Brewer and Styles (eds), An ungovernable people.

Innes, Joanna. 'Prisons for the poor: English bridewells, 1555-1800', in Francis Snyder and Douglas Hay (eds), Labour, Law and Crime: An Historical Perspective. London, 1987.

Jenkins, Philip. 'From gallows to prison? The execution rate in early modern England'. Criminal Justice History, 7 (1986).

Lake, Peter and Questier, Michael. 'Agency, appropriation and rhetoric under the gallows: puritans, romanists and the state in early modern England'. Past and Present, 153 ( ).

Laqueur, Thomas. 'Crowds, carnival and the state in English executions, 1604-1868', in Beier et al, The first modern society.

Linebaugh, Peter. 'The Tyburn riot against the surgeons', in Hay et al, Albion's fatal tree.

Linebaugh, Peter. The London hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century. London, 1991.

McGowen, Randall. 'The body and punishment in eighteenth-century England'. Journal of Modern History, 59 (1987).

McGowen, Randall. 'The changing face of God's justice: the debates over divine and human punishment in eighteenth-century England'. Criminal Justice History, 9 (1988).

Pike, Ruth. 'Penal practices in early modern Spain'. Criminal Justice History, 5 (1984).

Pike, Ruth. 'Capital punishment in eighteenth-century Spain'. Histoire Sociale/Social History, 18 (1985).

Samaha, J B. 'Hanging for felony: the rule of law in Elizabethan Colchester'. Historical Journal, 21 (1978).

Sharpe, J A. ' "Last dying speeches": religion, ideology and public execution in seventeenth-century England'. Past and Present, 107 (1985).

Sheehan, W J. 'Finding solace in eighteenth-century Newgate', in Cockburn (ed), Crime in England.

Spierenburg, Pieter. The spectacle of suffering: executions and the evolution of repression. Cambridge, 1984.

Spierenburg, Pieter. 'The body and the state: early modern Europe', in N Morris and D Rothman (eds), The Oxford History of the Prison. Oxford, 1995.

Brooks, C W. 'Interpersonal conflict and civil litigation in England, 1640-1830', in A Beier et al (eds), The first modern English society. Cambridge, 1989.

Harrison, Christopher. 'Manor courts and the governance of Tudor England', in Brooks and Lobban (eds), Communities and courts in Britain.

Hindle, Steve. 'The keeping of the public peace', in Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority.

Hindle, Steve. The state and social change in early modern England, c.1550-1640. Basingstoke, 2000.

Kagan, Richard L. 'A golden age of litigation: Castile, 1500-1700', in J. Bossy (ed), Disputes and settlements: law and human relations in the West. Cambridge, 1983.

Lenman, Bruce and Parker, Geoffrey. 'The state, the community and the criminal law in early modern Europe', in Gatrell et al (eds), Crime and the law.

Malcolmson, Robert. ' "A set of ungovernable people": the Kingswood colliers in the eighteenth century', in Brewer and Styles (eds), An ungovernable people.

Scribner, R W. 'Police and the territorial state in sixteenth-century Wurttemberg', in E Kouri and T Scott (eds), Politics and society in reformation Europe. London, 1987.

Sharpe, J A. ' "Such disagreement betwyx neighbours": litigation and human relations in early modern England', in John Bossy (ed), Disputes and settlements: law and human relations in the west. Cambridge, 1983.

Sharpe, J A. 'The people and the law', in Barry Reay (ed), Popular culture in seventeenth-century England. London, 1985.

Sharpe, J A. 'Enforcing the law in the seventeenth-century English village', in Gatrell et al (eds), Crime and the law.

Wood, Andy. 'Custom, identity and resistance: English free miners and their law, c.1550-1800', in Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority.

Wrightson, Keith. 'The politics of the parish in early modern England', in Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority.

Beier, A L. Masterless men: the vagrancy problem in England 1560-1640. London, 1985.

Curtis, T C and Speck, W. 'The societies for the reformation of manners: a case-study in the theory and practice of moral reform'. Literature and history, 3 (1976).

Eriksen, Kai T. Wayward puritans: a study in the sociology of deviance. New York, 1966.

Friedeburg, Robert von. 'Reformation of manners and the social composition of offenders in an East Anglia cloth village: Earl's Colne, Essex, 1531-1642'. Journal of British Studies, 29, (1990).

Griffiths, Paul. 'Masterless young people in Norwich, 1560-1645', in Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority.

Houlbrooke, Ralph A. Church courts and the people during the English Reformation 1520-1570. Oxford, 1979.

Ingram, Martin. 'Religion, communities and moral discipline in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century England: case studies', in Kaspar von Greyerz (ed), Religion and society in early modern Europe 1500-1800.

Ingram, Martin. 'Reformation of manners in early modern England', in Griffiths et al (eds), The experience of authority.

Lake, Peter. 'Puritanism, arminianism and a Shropshire axe-murder'. Midland History , 15 (1990).

McGowen, Randall. ' "He beareth not the sword in vain": religion and the criminal law in eighteenth-century England'. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21 (1987).

McIntosh, Marjorie K. Controlling misbehavior in England, 1370-1600. Cambridge, 1998.

Marchant, Ronald A. The church under the law: justice, administration and discipline in the diocese of York 1560-1640. Cambridge, 1969.

Schilling, H. ' "History of crime" or "history of sin"? Some reflections on the social history of early modern church discipline', in E Kouri and T Scott (eds), Politics and society in reformation Europe. London, 1987.

Shoemaker, Robert B. 'Reforming the city: the reformation of manners campaign in London, 1690-1738', in Davison et al (eds), Stilling the grumbling hive.

Slack, P A. 'Vagrants and vagrancy in England, 1598-1664'. Economic History Review, 2nd ser, 27 (1974).

Spufford, M. 'Puritanism and social control?', in Fletcher and Stevenson (eds), Order and disorder in early modern England.

Wrightson, Keith and Levine, David. Poverty and piety in an English village: Terling, 1525-1700. 2nd edn, Oxford, 1995.

Curtis, T C and Hale, F M. 'English thinking about crime, 1530-1620', in Knafla (ed), Crime and criminal justice in Europe and Canada.

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