Kriminalit\u00e4t in Gesellschaft und Kultur (Crime in Society and Culture)\u00a0<\/em> (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, currently being developed, probable publication in 2026).<\/p>\n \u201cThis is your hour\u201d: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937\u20131949<\/em> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019). (Now available as a paperback!<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace<\/em> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement<\/em> (London: Routledge, 2004).<\/p>\n Special issue: “Christian Modernities in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland”, Contemporary British History<\/em> 34<\/a>, no. 4 (2020). Published as: Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century<\/em> (Taylor and Francis, 2023)<\/p>\n Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Conflict, Community and the Social Order<\/em> (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2016). (OPEN ACCESS<\/a>)<\/p>\n (with Paul Knepper) Special issue: \u201cCrime Stories: Criminality, Policing and the Press in Inter-war European and Transatlantic Perspectives\u201d, Media History<\/em> 20, no. 4 (2014).<\/p>\n \u201cTechnology, Faith and the Reception of Secular Social Thought among Christian Intellectuals in Mid-twentieth-century Britain\u201d (article in progress, intended submission 2026\/27)<\/p>\n \u201cMaking the Word New (again): the Bible for Today<\/em> (1941), Industrial Society and \u2018Modern\u2019 Christianity\u201d (article in progress, intended submission 2026\/27)<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018The Laws and Values Not Made by Man\u2019: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Challenge of the Technological Society, 1930s\u20131950s\u201d, in Sakralisierung – Disziplin\u00e4re Zug\u00e4nge und empirische Forschungsperspektiven<\/em>, ed. Johannes Paulmann and Jan Kusber (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming 2027).<\/p>\n “Crime, Media and Modernity in the Twentieth Century”, in A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Modern Age<\/em>, ed. Paul Lawrence (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 165-185.<\/p>\n “‘The Rightful Purpose of Things’: The World Council of Churches and the Technological Society, 1937\u20131948”, in Rethinking the Sacred in Modern European History<\/em>, ed. Bernhard Gi\u00dfibl and Andrea Hofmann (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2023), 191-212, Open Access: https:\/\/www.vr-elibrary.de\/doi\/abs\/10.13109\/9783666302459.191<\/a><\/p>\n “Introduction: Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century”, Contemporary British History<\/em> 34, no. 4 (2020): 495\u2013509, DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13619462.2020.1789458<\/a><\/p>\n “Going ‘Part of the Way Together’: Christian Intellectuals, Modernity and the Secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain”, Contemporary British History<\/em> 34, no. 4 (2020): 580\u2013602, DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13619462.2020.1801428<\/a><\/p>\n “Sympathies and Scandals: (Counter-)Narratives of Criminality and Policing in Inter-War Britain”, in Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger and Holger Schmidt (ed.), Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment<\/i> (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020), 161\u2013180. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-47236-8_8<\/a><\/p>\n (with Johannes Paulmann and Fabian Cremer): “Linkage – Digitale Gegenwart und Zukunft historischer Forschung. Die Ziele der Konsortialinitiative 4Memory”, VHD Journal<\/em>,<\/a> 2020, 26-34.<\/p>\n (with Johannes Paulmann), “Die digitale Integration von historischer Forschung, Ged\u00e4chtniseinrichtungen und Infrastrukturen\u201c in Archivnachrichten aus Hessen<\/em><\/a>, special issue (Summer 2020), 77-81.<\/p>\n “Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Group”, Church Times<\/em><\/a>, 31 May 2019. \u201cWhen Personalism Met Planning: Jacques Maritain and a British Christian Intellectual Network, 1937\u20131949\u201d, in Rajesh Heynickx und St\u00e9phane Symons (ed.), So What’s New about Scholasticism? How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century<\/em> (Berlin\/London: Walter De Gruyter, 2018), 77\u2013108.<\/p>\n \u201cFuture Research Agendas on Violent Crime: The Challenges to History from Evolutionary Psychology\u201d, in special issue on future agendas in crime history: Crime, Histoire & Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s \/ Crime, History and Societies<\/em> 21, no. 2 (2017): 351\u2013359. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/chs.2036<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBlessed is the Nation? Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe\u201d, in Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Conflict, Community, and the Social Order<\/em>, ed. John Carter Wood (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2016), 11\u201331.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018The rock of human sanity stands in the sea where it always stood\u2019: Britishness, Christianity, and the Experience of (Near) Defeat, 1937\u20131941\u201d, in Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Conflict, Community, and the Social Order<\/em>, ed. John Carter Wood (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2016), 131\u2013148.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018A fundamental re-orientation of outlook\u2019: Religi\u00f6se Intellektuelle und das Ziel einer \u2018christlichen Gesellschaft\u2019 in Gro\u00dfbritannien, 1937-1949\u201d, in Kulturelle Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t \u2013 Politische Deutungs\u2010 und Handlungsmacht jenseits des Staates im 20. Jahrhundert<\/em>, ed. Johannes Paulmann, Gregor Feindt, and Bernhard Gi\u00dfibl (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 165\u2013194.<\/p>\n \u201cCrime News and the Press\u201d, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice<\/em>, ed. Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 301\u2013319.<\/p>\n (with Peter King) \u201cBlack People and the Criminal Justice System: Prejudice and Practice in Later Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century London\u201d, Historical Research<\/em> 88 (2015): 100\u2013124. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1468-2281.12063<\/a><\/p>\n (with Paul Knepper) \u201cCrime Stories: Criminality, Policing and the Press in Inter-war European and Transatlantic Perspectives\u201d, Media History<\/em> 20, no. 4 (2014): 345\u2013351. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13688804.2014.949409<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Constables and the Garage Girl: The Police, the Press, and the Case of Helene Adele\u201d, Media History<\/em> 20, no. 4 (2014): 384\u2013399. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13688804.2014.949421<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cZwischen Mammon und Marx: Christliche Kapitalismuskritik in Gro\u00dfbritannien 1930-39\u201d, in Religion und Kapitalismus<\/em>, ed. Robert K\u00f6nig (Kaltenleutgeben: Ferstl & Perz, 2014), 147\u2013176.<\/p>\n \u201cPublic Opinion and the Rhetoric of Police Powers in 1920s Britain\u201d, in Justice et espaces publics en Occident de l’Antiquit\u00e9 \u00e0 nos jours: Pouvoirs, Publicit\u00e9 et Citoyennet\u00e9, ed. Pascal Bastien, Donald Fyson, Jean-Philippe Garneau, and Thierry Nootens (Quebec: Presses de l’Universit\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec, 2014), 327\u2013337.<\/p>\n \u201cDrinking, Fighting and Working-Class Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u201d, in Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries<\/em>, ed. Susanne Schmid and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014), 71\u201380.<\/p>\n \u201cWatching the Detectives (and the Constables): Fearing the Police in 1920s Britain\u201d, in Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media: Historical Perspectives<\/em>, ed. Sian Nicholas and Tom O’Malley (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013), 147\u2013161.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018German Foolishness\u2019 and the \u2018Prophet of Doom\u2019: Oswald Spengler and the Inter-war British Press\u201d, in Oswald Spengler als europ\u00e4isches Ph\u00e4nomen. Der Transfer der Kultur- und Geschichtsmorphologie im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit (1919-1939)<\/em>, ed. Zaur Gasimov and Carl Antonius Lemke Duque (G\u00f6ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013): 157\u2013184.<\/p>\n \u201cPress, Politics and the \u2018Police and Public\u2019 Debates in Late 1920s Britain\u201d, Crime, Histoire & Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s \/ Crime, History and Societies<\/em> 16, no. 1 (2012): 75\u201398. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/chs.1324<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Going mad is their only way of staying sane\u2019: Norbert Elias and the Civilised Violence of J.G. Ballard\u201d, in J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions<\/em>, ed. Jeannette Baxter and Rowland Wymer (London: Palgrave, 2011), 198\u2013214.<\/p>\n \u201cA Change of Perspective: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology into the Historiography of Violence\u201d, British Journal of Criminology<\/em> 51 (2011): 479\u2013498. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/bjc\/azq077<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cReading Spaces and Reading Violence in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u201d, Journal for the Study of British Cultures<\/em> 17, no. 2 (2010): 133\u2013143.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018The Third Degree\u2019: Press Reporting, Crime Fiction and Police Powers in 1920s Britain\u201d, Twentieth Century British History<\/em>, 21, no. 4 (2010): 464\u2013485. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/tcbh\/hwq032<\/a><\/p>\n (with Anja M\u00fcller-Wood) \u201cHow Is Culture Biological? Violence: Real and Imagined\u201d, Politics and Culture<\/em> (2010, Issue 1, Bioculture: Evolutionary Cultural Studies, https:\/\/www.politicsandculture.org\/2010\/04\/28\/contents-2\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Those Who Have Had Trouble Can Sympathise with You\u2019: Press Writing, Reader Responses and a Murder Trial in Interwar Britain\u201d, Journal of Social History<\/em> 43, no. 2 (2009): 439\u2013462. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/jsh.0.0277<\/a><\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Mrs. Pace\u2019 and the Ambiguous Language of Victimisation\u201d, in (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women\u2019s Experience<\/em>, ed. Lisa Dresdner and Laurel Peterson (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 79\u201393.<\/p>\n (with Anja M\u00fcller-Wood) \u201cBringing the Past to Heel: History, Identity and Violence in Ian McEwan\u2019s Black Dogs\u201d, Literature and History<\/em> 16, no. 2 (2007): 43\u201356. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7227\/LH.16.2.4<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEvolution, Civilization and History: A Response to Wiener and Rosenwein\u201d, Cultural and Social History<\/em> 4, no. 4 (2007): 559\u2013565. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2752\/147800407X243541<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Limits of Culture? Society, Evolutionary Psychology and the History of Violence\u201d, Cultural and Social History<\/em> 4, no. 1 (2007): 95\u2013114. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14780038.2007.11425739<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cLocating Violence: The Spatial Production and Construction of Physical Aggression\u201d, in Assaulting the Past: Violence and Civilization in Historical Context<\/em>, ed. Katherine D. Watson (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 20\u201337.<\/p>\n \u201cConceptualising Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change\u201d, in Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective<\/em>, ed. Stuart Carroll (London: Macmillan, 2007), 79\u201396.<\/p>\n \u201cCriminal Violence in Modern Britain\u201d, History Compass<\/em> 4, no. 1 (2006): 77\u201390. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1478-0542.2005.00200.x<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Process of Civilization (and its Discontents): Violence, Narrative and History\u201d, in Discourses of Violence – Violence of Discourses: Critical Interventions, Transgressive Readings and Post-National Negotiations<\/em>, ed. Dirk Wiemann, Agata Stopinska, Anke Bartels and Johannes Angerm\u00fcller (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005), 117\u2013128.<\/p>\n \u201cA Useful Savagery: The Invention of Violence in Nineteenth-Century England\u201d, Journal of Victorian Culture<\/em> 9, no. 1 (2004): 22\u201342. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3366\/jvc.2004.9.1.22<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a Small World After All? Reflections on Violence in Comparative Perspectives\u201d, in Comparative Histories of Crime<\/em>, ed. Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall (Cullompton: Willan, 2003), 36\u201352.<\/p>\nEdited Collections<\/h3>\n
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