Murder and Mayhem

ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Principal Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on the history of violent crime and the history of female criminality since the early modern period. DAVID NASH is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of the history of blasphemy, blasphemous libel and religious crime for over fifteen years. He is also author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1650-1900 with Anne-Marie Kilday, with whom he co-edited Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000.

Murder and Mayhem provides a timely and accessible study of crime and criminality in twentieth-century Britain. Exploring and contextualising key themes in the history of crime, the text is an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike.

• Introduction: Britain in the Twentieth Century, David Nash and Anne-Marie KildayBritain's Most 'Wanted': Homicide and Serial Murder since 1900, Anne-Marie KildaySerious Property Offending in the Twentieth Century, Lucy Williams and Barry GodfreyRacial Hate Crime in Britain,David NashOffences Against Children: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse,Kim StevensonAnarchism, Assassination and Terrorismin Modern Britain, Johannes Dillinger‘Hope I Die Before I Get Too Old’: Social Rebellion and Social Diseases, Clifford WilliamsonOrganised Crime, Criminality and the ‘Gangster', Heather ShorePunishment: The Death Penalty and Incarceration, Helen JohnstonLaw Enforcement: Policies and Perspectives,Neil Davie