Crime and Punishment Social History By Topic

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• - Educational material from the History Channel UK, aimed at seeing how ideas about the nature and causes of crime and the suitability of punishments have changed throughout history.
  
• - Organization information and directory of upcoming conferences in the field.
  
• - Essays and online forum about methods of torture, cruel justice, and other unpleasantries that humans have inflicted on each other. Invites submissions.
  
• - Teaching resources from the UK's National Archives Learning Curve. Covers crime, prevention, and punishment in four eras: before 1450, 1450-1750, 1750-1900, and 20th century, using documents from the Public Record Office.
  
• - European University Institute Internet database providing information about ongoing research projects.
  
• - Includes a list of some milestones in the history of British penal reform.
  
• - Includes articles on the origin of prisons and features about specific prisons.