London’s Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720–c. 1930

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Now we have the Informing Dogs!’: Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s

Chapter 3 ‘A Noted Virago’: Moll Harvey and her ‘Dangerous Crew’, 1727–1738

Chapter 4 ‘The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day’ : Changing Street Theft, c. 1800–1850

Chapter 5 ‘There goes Bill Sheen, the Murderer’: Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827–1852

Chapter 6 ‘A new species of swindling’: Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the ‘Long-Firm’, c. 1760–1913

Chapter 7 ‘A London Plague that must be swept away’: Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882–1912

Chapter 8 ‘The Terror of the People’: Organised Crime in Interwar London

Chapter 9 Conclusion