SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Scholars such as Stephen J. Carver argue that G.W.M. Reynolds’s penny blood The Mysteries of London (1844-48) represents organised crime in the Victorian criminal underworld. Yet thus far no researcher has yet applied any theories from criminology relating to organised crime to explain why the activities of the Resurrection Man, the novel's principal criminal protagonist, and his associates constitute an example of it. This article remedies this situation by applying Mark Galeotti’s definition of organised crime to a study of the Resurrection Man's gang in Reynolds’s novel, showing how Reynolds understood that, not only was there an underworld, but there was also a criminal upper world. These two worlds overlapped, their members colluded together.
Publication Date
2018-01-01
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
8
Issue
1
First Page
53
Last Page
75
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
June 2016
Embargo Period
2024-10-29
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Basdeo, Stephen
(2018)
"That's Business': Organised Crime in G.W.M. Reynolds' The Mysteries of London (1844-48),"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol8/iss1/10
