Shoemaker, R.B. orcid.org/0000-0002-0969-0373 (2020) Sympathy for the criminal : the criminal celebrity in eighteenth-century London. Crime History and Societies, 24 (1). pp. 5-28. ISSN 1422-0857
Abstract
This article investigates the rise and fall of the criminal celebrity in London between 1660 and 1790. It explains how, through the dramatic expansion of print culture and the rise of sensibility, a small number of highwaymen, thieves and a bigamist were able to seek and receive substantial public sympathy, despite widespread concerns about the extent of crime in London. However, in the early nineteenth century, changing attitudes towards crime and new penal practices led to the disappearance of this type of positive criminal celebrity. These findings contribute to our understanding of both changing attitudes towards crime and the wider history of celebrity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Droz. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Crime History and Societies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2019 11:03 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Librairie Droz (for the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.4000/chs.2677 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153261 |