Category: Police
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Shoplifting: woman stealing a tube of toothpaste, 1962 (Photo by RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images) I recently wrote an article for The Conversation on the history of shoplifting, which has been a research interest of mine for some time now. In the article, I drew on was the memoirs written by women who had been…
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My current research project looks at the role of non-violent crimes, such as the buying and selling of stolen goods, within working-class homes and family life. Working-class memoirs and forms of life writing are a rich and revealing source for this project and have helped me think differently about the role of offending within urban…
Living on Poverty Street: Working-Class Memoirs and Life-Writing in Britain, 1918-1979 