The Monster Evil
Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
“Victorian Liverpool had an unenviable reputation for violence. This book sets out to assess both the scale and variety of Liverpool’s violence, and the means by which it was policed. Exhaustively researched and persuasively argued, it adds significantly to the debates about the history of criminal violence and of policing.”
List of illustrations, figures and tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Street map of Liverpool in the 1880s
Part I: Liverpool
1. Liverpool and the taint of criminality
2. Liverpool: “The most immoral of all immoral places’
Part II: Policing the borough
3. ‘An army to check barbarism’: the policing of Liverpool
4. The community and the police: evidence, lies and violence
Part III: Violent crime in Liverpool
5. The fighting Irish
6. The fist, the boot and the knife: male-on-male violence
7. The Liverpool cornermen, gangs and garroting
8. Female savages and tippling viragoes: violent women
9. Women as victims of domestic and sexual violence
10. ‘A constant state of strife’: family violence
11. ‘Boy brigands’ and ‘young savages’: juvenile criminals and their young victims
12. ‘A most unmerciful beating’: adult violence to children
13. A conclusion. ‘Giving a dog a bad name’: Liverpool and its criminal reputation in the nineteenth century
Appendix: Saturday night and Sunday morning: Hugh Shimmin’s account of the Rosehill night shift
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of people
Index of street names and places
History: British and Irish History
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