General Literature of Crime

• Boyle, Thomas. Black swine in the sewers of Hampstead : beneath the surface of Victorian sensationalism.. Hodder: London, 1990.
• Curtis, Lewis P. Jack the Ripper and the London press.. Yale University Press: London, 2001.
• Dolan, Frances. Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700. Ithaca and London, 1994.
• Englander, David. Henry Mayhew and the Criminal Classes of Victorian England : The Case Reopened. Criminal Justice History, 17 (2002).
• Gatrell, V. A. C. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. Oxford, 1994.
• Gladfelder, Hal. Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth Century England: Beyond the Law. London, 2001.
• Kalikoff, Beth. Murder and Moral Decay in Victorian Popular Literature. Univ of Rochester Pr: Ann Arbor, 1986.
• McKenzie, A. Making Crime Pay: Motives, Marketing Strategies, and the Printed Literature of Crime in England 1670-1770. In Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie, ed. by Greg T Smith and Allyson N May and Simon Devereaux. 1998.
• Rosenberg, Philippe. Sanctifying the Robe: Punitive Violence and the English Press, 1650-1700. In Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900 : Punishing the English, ed. by Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths. 2004.
• Ward, Richard M. Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

Criminal Biographies

• Faller, L. Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge, 1987.
• Harris, M. Trials and Criminal Biographies: A Case Study in Distribution. In Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700, ed. by R. Myers and M. Harris. 1982.
• McKenzie, A. Making Crime Pay: Motives, Marketing Strategies, and the Printed Literature of Crime in England 1670-1770. In Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie, ed. by Greg T Smith and Allyson N May and Simon Devereaux. 1998.
• Rawlings, Philip. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1992.
• Singleton, R. R. English Criminal Biography, 1651-1722. Harvard Library Bulletin, 18 (1970).

Last Dying Speeches

• Gladfelder, Hal. Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth Century England: Beyond the Law. London, 2001.
• Sharpe, J. A. 'Last Dying speeches': Religion, Ideology and Public Execution in Seventeenth-Century England. Past and Present, 107 (1985).

Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts

• Linebaugh, P. The Ordinary of Newgate and his Account. In Crime in England 1550-1800, ed. by J. S Cockburn. 1977.
• McKenzie, A. Making Crime Pay: Motives, Marketing Strategies, and the Printed Literature of Crime in England 1670-1770. In Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie, ed. by Greg T Smith and Allyson N May and Simon Devereaux. 1998.
• McKenzie, Andrea. From True Confessions to True Reporting? The Decline and Fall of the Ordinary's Account. London Journal, 30:1 (2005).

Newspapers

• Boyce, George, Curran, James and Wingate, Pauline (ed.). Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day. London, 1978.
• Andrew, Donna T. The Press and Public Apologies in Eighteenth-Century London. In Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830, ed. by Norma Landau. 2002.
• Barker, Hannah. Newspapers, Politics and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford, 1998.
• Black, Jeremy. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. London, 1987.
• Devereaux, Simon. From Sessions to Newspaper? Criminal Trial Reporting, the Nature of Crime, and the London Press, 1770-1800. London Journal, 32:1 (2007).
• Harris, Bob. Politics and the Rise of the Press: Britain and France, 1620-1800. London, 1996.
• Harris, Michael. London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole: A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press. London, 1987.
• Harris, Robert. A Patriot Press: National Politics and the London Press in the 1740s. Oxford, 1993.
• MacKay, Lynn. Refusing the Royal Pardon: London Capital Convicts and the Reactions of the Courts and the Press, 1789. London Journal, 28 (2003).
• Sutherland, James. The Restoration Newspaper and its Development. Cambridge, 1986.
• Winkler, K. T. The Forces of the Market and the London Newspaper in the first half of the Eighteenth Century. Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, 4:2 (1988).

Court Records

• Cockburn, J. S. Early Modern Assize Records as Historical Evidence. Journal of the Society of Archivists, 5 (1975).
• Gaskill, M. Reporting Murder: Fiction in the Archives of Early Modern England. Social History, 23 (1998).
• Hawkings, D. T. Criminal Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Criminal Records in England and Wales. Stroud, 1992.
• Langbein, J. H. The Criminal Trial before the Lawyers. The University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (1978).
• Sharpe, J. A. Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750. London, 1984.

Novels and Prints

• Sharpe, J. A (ed.). Crime and the Law in English Satirical Prints, 1600-1832. Cambridge, 1986.
• Bell, I. A. Literature and Crime in Augustan England. London, 1991.
• Faller, L. Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing. Cambridge, 1993.
• Fielding, Henry. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings. Oxford, 1988.
• Gatrell, Vic. City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London. London, 2006.
• Gladfelder, Hal. Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth Century England: Beyond the Law. London, 2001.
• Hallett, Mark. The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth. London, 1999.
• Hislop, Ian and Bills, Mark. The Art of Satire: London in Caricature. Basingstoke, 2006.
• Mandeville, Bernard. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn. Los Angeles, 1964.
• McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Oxford, 1998.
• O'Connell, Sheila. London 1753. London, 2003.
• Paulson, R. Hogarth. Cambridge, 1991.
• Rogers, N. Confronting the Crime Wave: The Debate Over Social Reform and Regulation, 1749-53. In Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Response to Social and Economic Problems in England, 1689-1750, ed. by Lee Davison and T. Hitchcock and T. Keirn and R. Shoemaker. 1992.
• Shesgreen, Sean. Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London. Manchester, 2002.
• Trodd, Anthea. Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 1989.
• Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth: A Life and a World. London, 1997.
• Wiltenburg, Joy. Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1992.