Legal History: Crime and Punishment Research Guide

"A commentary on the book of crimes and punishments"--P. i-lxxix.

Full title: The Complete Newgate calendar : being Captain Charles Johnson's General history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers and account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates, 1734 : Captain Alexander Smith's Compleat history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen, footpads, shop-lifts and cheats, 1719 : The Tyburn chronicle, 1768 : The Malefactors' register, 1796 : George Borrow's Celebrated trials, 1825 : The Newgate calendar / by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 1826 : Camden Pelham's Chronicles of crime, 1841, etc.

Preservation photocopy. Originally published: London : H. Sweet, 1884. Photocopied from the original held by: Georgetown University Law Library.

Includes extracts from the writings of Dr. Johnson, Jeremy Bentham, Blackstone, Colquhoun and others.
Full title: Criminal executions in England with remarks on the penal code, prison discipline and abuses, and other subjects connected with the punishment and prevention of crime : supported by copious extracts from the writings of Dr. Johnson, Clarkson, Jeremy Bentham, Dr. Forde, Blackstone, Colquhoun, Montagu, Sir William Grant, and other eminent writers : to which are added strictures on the character of "The Times" newspaper, and a demonstration of the innocence of James Butler, lately executed for the alleged crime of firing the floor-cloth manufactory of Messrs. Downing, at Chelsea

Intended to give the whole of the law relating to each of those everyday offences which commonly occur in the administration of justice as fully and as shortly as is consistent with accuracy.

Preservation photocopy. Originally published: London : Wyman & Sons, 1879. Photocopied from the original held by: Georgetown University Law Library.