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Gang crime and the media in late nineteenth-century London: the Regent’s Park murder of 1888

Gray, D. (2013) Gang crime and the media in late nineteenth-century London: the Regent’s Park murder of 1888. Cultural and Social History. 10(4), pp. 559-575. 1478-0038.

Item Type: Article
Abstract: This article will offer a fresh perspective on media attitudes towards working-class youth in late Victorian London by looking in detail at a case study of violent youth crime. It offers an analysis of gang crime in the late nineteenth-century capital and explores the use of class and stereotyping in the reporting of working-class youth. It considers the extent to which the problems of violent youth gangs were manipulated by the press to portray the capital as a ‘city out of control’. Finally it will argue that these contemporary representations of youth helped create a fear that exaggerated the threat posed by gangs
Uncontrolled Keywords: Gangs, crime, Regent's Park, London, newspapers, moral panic
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV6001 Criminology > HV6251 Crimes and offences > HV6535 Murder
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN4699 Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA670 Local history and description > DA675 London
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV6001 Criminology > HV6774 Crimes and criminal classes > HV6950.L7 London
Creators: Gray, Drew
Publisher: Arnold Publishers
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016)
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > History
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > History
Date: 1 December 2013
Date Type: Publication
Page Range: pp. 559-575
Journal or Publication Title: Cultural and Social History
Volume: 10
Number: 4
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/147800413X13727009732209
ISSN: 1478-0038
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/5415

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