Nineteenth-century crime and policing : monographs and newspapers from the Library of Congress.

Format:

Book

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

French

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Crime--United States--History--19th century.

Crime.

Police--United States--History--19th century.

Police.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History--19th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Criminal law--United States--History--19th century.

Criminal law.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (37 monographs, 1,796 issues (96,371 articles) (36,955 pages)) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1866-1923.

Language Note:

English, French, Spanish.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the United States in the nineteenth century, the influx of immigrants into major cities such as New York and Boston, as well as the rapid expansion of the Western frontier, led to an increasingly lawless society that required the passage of new regulations governing public behavior as well as the creation of police forces, prisons, and other law-enforcement institutions. This collection contains newspapers and monographs dating from 1866 to 1923 that chronicle crime and police activity during that tumultuous time. The collection features numerous copies of The National Police Gazette, a publication created in 1845 that covered illegal activity on the streets of New York, which were highlighted in columns with titles such as "Vice's varieties," "Murder and suicide," and "This wicked world." The articles were often accompanied by elaborate black-and-white woodcut engravings depicting the various parties and activities involved. Copies of a newspaper out of Boston called The illustrated police news provide similarly sensationalist descriptions and drawings of lynch mobs, jealous husbands, hapless bank robbers, and the like. Other items in the collection focus on the solving of crimes. Monographs in the collection include a yearly publication on criminal statistics from Chile and fictional detective stories. This collection is valuable to researchers studying the wide array of depictions of the criminal world of more than a century ago, whether fictional, sensationalist, editorial, or journalistic.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1866-1923.

Source institution: Library of Congress.

Subcollection titles: The illustrated police news; National police gazette.

Local Notes:

Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

Contains:

Illustrated police news.

National police gazette.

OCLC:

937021560

Access Restriction:

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