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HIST J400 Criminal Histories

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Quick start resources

Most databases allow you click a box with a name like "scholarly articles," which does a reasonably good job of limiting your results to high-quality, academic articles.

Some recently published titles in IUCAT

The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia (ebook)

Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld (ebook and print)

Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison (ebook)

DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools (ebook and print)

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The 'Black Ghost' of Bermondsey (ebook)

Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England (ebook)

Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (ebook)

History and Crime: A Transdisciplinary Approach (ebook)

Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime that Captivated a Nation (ebook)

Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (ebook and print)

An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America (ebook)

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (ebook)