p2pnet news | Crime:- Close to the beginning of the last century, American homeopath Hawley Harvey Crippen killed his wife before fleeing to Canada.

He was living in England when he committed the crime.

Decades earlier, a 13-year-old boy burglar was sentenced to death.

The date? 1835. And in 1742, one Edmund Larrat was executed for stealing a sheep.

All three cases are now available on the London Central Criminal Court, aka the Old Bailey, site, now open to the public.

Under Historical Background to the Proceedings of the Old Bailey:

• Crime, Justice and Punishment
  Types of crime, verdict and punishment; policing; trial procedures; judges and juries.
• London and its Hinterlands
  London life from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries; London’s rural hinterlands; population history of London; currency, coinage, and the cost of living; material london; transport.
• Community Histories
  Black communities; Chinese communities; Gypsies and Travellers; homosexuality; Huguenot and French London; Irish London; Jewish communities.
• Gender in the Proceedings
  Gender roles; feminism and the suffragettes; gender and crime, justice and punishment; researching gender in the Proceedings.
• The Old Bailey Courthouse
  Architectural history of London’s Central Criminal Court, 1673-1913.

Times Online has Clive Emsley of the Open University, a project director, saying:

“Crime is something that fascinates everyone, and what the Old Bailey Proceedings does is provide people with the opportunity to see what crime was really like in the past.

“For example, we think of terrorism being new, but people will see terrorists who are attempting to do the same things 100 years ago.”

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Times Online – Thousands of old cases unearthed as Old Bailey goes online, April 28, 2008

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