Serious Offenders

Professor Barry Godfrey of Keele University has authored or co-authored eight books on the history of crime, policing, and long term trends in sentencing offenders, including Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending.Dr David J. Cox is Research Fellow at the Law and Criminal Justice Centre, University of Plymouth, and Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University. He has a PhD on policing in the early 19th century, and is the co-author of Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending.Professor Stephen Farrall is Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield. He has previously worked at the Universities of Oxford and Keele. He is the author of over 40 journal articles and is the co-author of Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending.

• Author's Preface ; 1. Serious Offenders and their Researchers ; 2. Our Methodology ; 3. Serious Offenders, and the Legislation that 'Produced' them ; 4. Understanding the Evidence ; 5. The Impact of Social and Personal Factors on Serious Offending ; 6. Hunting Men down to Honesty and Respectability ; 7. Making Sense of Historical and Modern Systems of Control and Surveillance