CRIME IN SHEFFIELD

Charlie Peace, the Sheffield Gang Wars, the Rhino Whip affair, the arrest of the Yorkshire Ripper - just some of the famous episodes from crime in Sheffield recounted in this book. But it also takes us back to the time when Sheffield was just a parish of Hallamshire and the Lord of the Manor administered justice. In those days beggars were branded, cheats put in the stocks, petty thieves hanged - and wearing the wrong sort of hat in church was an offence. CRIME IN SHEFFIELD recalls colourful scenes from seven hundred years of crime, detection and punishment to show how patterns of crime and law enforcement developed as society changed and Sheffield grew into the major city it is today.

CRIME IN SHEFFIELD was the first book of its kind - tracing the history of crime in a British city. Professor Philip J. Stead, in a review in Law Enforcement News, USA, headed “700 years of urban crime in microcosm through the experience of an English city” described this work by JP Bean as “a graphic evocation for the general reader”. In the Sheffield Star Stephen McClarence said “Bean writes in a lively and entertaining way with the general reader in mind and is happy to stick to the facts.”

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