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What continuities and changes in attitudes to crime and punishment are represented in the texts? Disease, alcoholism, crime and prostitution were all rife in eighteenth century England. England had the bloodiest law code in Europe, there were over four hundred offences for which the punishment was death, including stealing goods worth just five shillings. The hangings at Tyburn had been turned into a gory ritual, with the criminals being used as circus exhibits for the duration of their last few days alive, and thousands would crowd onto Tyburn Hill to watch. In the country, the situation was just as bad with popular use of enclosure throwing many off the land, and the harsh game laws - where to poach a rabbit had a sentence equal to that of murder! Worse still, this was not common across Europe, in fact such harsh laws and bloody entertainment were renowned as quintessentially English. ...

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