General
Violent Crime
- Murder by drowning
- Murder by strangling
- Assassination
- Danger inside the Train: Crime on Victorian Railways
- Robbery of stage coaches
- River pirates
- England as "the European center of suicide"
- Jack the Ripper
Nonviolent Crime
- Bigamy (sitemap)
- Prostitution (sitemap)
- Child prostitution
- Bodysnatchers
- Pickpockets
- Fraud: embezzlement, forgery, and swindling of all kinds (sitemap)
- Poisoning in the Victorian Period: Excerpts and Resources
- Murder by poisoning
Preventing and Solving Crime
- The Metropolitan Police Force
- Francis Galton's portable finger-printing kit
- City of London Police Uniform, 1891
- The Black Chamber of the Post Office and spying on citizens
Crime and Punishment
- The Condemned Man's Nightmares — Bill Bolter the night before his execution
- [Opposition to] Capital Punishment
- [Opposition to] Imprisonment for Debt
- “That rotatory engine of diabolical torture” – The Tread-Wheel in Coldbath Field’s Prison
- Transportation as Judicial Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- "Transported for Life" in Cruikshank and Dickens (1848, 1861)
- Prison Reformers
- Web Resources about convicted criminals
Crime in Literature and the Arts
- "What Power; What Grandeur": Swindlers as Objects of Admiration in The Way We Live Now
- Swindlers and Society in Dickens and Carlyle
- Bigamy and the Sensation Novel
- Detective Novels: Whodunits and Thrillers
Reviews
- Review of Linda Stratmann's The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
- Review of Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Review of Sara Malton's Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde
- Review of Aviva Briefel's The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliography
Cteated 24 May 2024
Last modifed 23 March 2026