Titlebook: Crime, Broadsides and Social Change, 1800-1850; Kate Bates Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 Crime and media.

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adsides, illustrated by statistical figures, tables and maps. This detailed method of analysis produced a wealth of information from the broadside content and revealed factual details relating to the crimes, punishments, criminals and victims they depicted. For example, several conclusions can be ma

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he history of this form of street literature. The main aim will be to challenge the assumption that these broadsides are evidence of state-authorised social control by investigating who actually wrote, produced and distributed them. This chapter will therefore look in detail at the nineteenth-centur

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have shown that there is more meaning inherent in this cheap literature than mere entertainment or social control, and the main aim here will be to suggest a more apposite interpretation of the role and function of broadsides. This will be based upon the social theories of Emile Durkheim who recogni

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urther evidence from modern criminological research into the form and function of crime narratives. Crime narratives have been widely recognised as a form of social and emotional ritual, which fulfil a psychosocial need and provide emotional security in the face of anxiety and disturbance, and this

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e publication peaked during the first half of the nineteenth century, as this was a period of violent transition and severe social strain. The disintegrating forces of industrialisation and urbanisation were at their most destructive then but, by the middle of the century, society had slowly adapted

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Kate BatesOffers an original and unique study regarding the social significance of nineteenth-century crime and execution broadsides.Provides a thorough criminological treatment to this significant, but relativ

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nineteenth-century broadside production was motivated to a large extent by the reporting of actual crimes and they responded to real fluctuations in crime rates; the people to feature most prominently in broadsides are those of the poorer and lower classes, whether they are criminals, victims or witnesses.

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orking-class literacy, competition between broadsides and newspapers, and middle-class attitudes to broadsides will be discussed and challenged. The central argument will be that broadsides can be viewed as authentically working class and, therefore, representative of their values and beliefs.