Best Witches
A very useful and wide-ranging set of resources (Joan Pontius) (NB: Wayback Archive)

The ‘bloody papist’: murder, papists and propaganda in early modern prose pamphlets
NB: link to download MS Word document
article by Lynne Robson (Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance)
From Renaissance Journal, 2:1 (2004)

Famous American Trials: Boston Massacre Trial
Resources relating to the trials of British soldiers who fired on a Boston crowd in 1770 (Douglas Linder)

1737 Canting Dictionary
transcription (in XML format) of N. Bailey’s Universal Etymological English Dictionary (Liam Quin)

Last Mile Tours: Capital Punishment in Eighteenth-century England
Website of a student project making imaginative use of original sources (Margaret Allen, Mandy Taylor, Bonnie Bonifield)

Clothing, cloth and cloth-theft in Defoe’s England
An essay looking at clothing, the second-hand clothes trade and theft in the early eighteenth century (Melissa Johnson)

The Complete Newgate Calendar
The complete text (searchable) of the 1926 edition of this eighteenth-century source (University of Texas, Law in Popular Culture collection)

The Court Structure of Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1860
A basic guide to the courts: ‘the intention is that researchers knowing only the name of the court whose documents they are consulting can easily determine its position in the judicial hierarchy, its predecessors and successors, and its general competence’ (Donald Fyson)

Crime and literature in the eighteenth century
Bibliography (Edith Hallberg)

Crime and popular protest
overview essay by Steve Hindle; a useful introduction to the subject
chapter in B Coward (ed), A companion to Stuart Britain (Blackwell, 2003)

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe
Basic information and reading for a taught course syllabus (Susan Dinan)

Crime and punishment in early modern Germany
An essay about the judicial and penal system of early modern Germany (Robert Selig)

Crime and the Law in Elizabethan England
This useful resource includes sections on the Elizabethan underworld, attitudes to crime, punishment (Internet Shakespeare Editions)

Crime, gender and social order in early modern England
Book extract: chapter from Garthine Walker’s monograph (Cambridge, 2003)

Crime, litigation and the courts in the Isle of Man
Outline of a research project using a rich but neglected set of archives, from a range of courts in the early modern Isle of Man (Stephen Miller) (NB: Wayback Archive)

Dartford assizes in the sixteenth century
An abstract of criminal cases from Dartford tried at the Assize courts: gives a flavour of the types of offence tried at these important English courts (Dartford Archive)

Domestic state violence: repression from the Croquants to the Commune
seminar paper by Howard G Brown
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)

The duello in Elizabethan England
A lively (if not very scholarly) essay about the culture of the duel in early modern England (Maelgwyn Dda)

Glossary of useful legal terms
A list of legal and technical terms for students of early modern crime in England and Wales (EMR)

Early Modern Crime, Law and Order bibliography
a broad-ranging themed bibliography of published secondary sources, searchable (EMR)

Online primary sources for crime in early modern England and Wales
A list of online sources (EMR)

Early Modern Witchcraft
Vast scholarly bibliography, now searchable and browsable by subject and region (Jonathan Durrant)

Enclosure and Resistance in Oxfordshire: A Tradition of Disorder?
essay by Steve Hindle on the importance of commons rights for the rural poor and on their resistance to enclosures which threatened these (BBC Online)

Female Crime in Renaissance Drama
Website of a student project which considers media representations of murderous women, focusing on the play Arden of Faversham (Matthew Clothier and Leah Edwards) (NB: Wayback Archive)

First Fleet Online
website about convicts transported to Australia in 1787, for students and teachers, professional historians, family historians and other researchers; includes a database of the First Fleet convicts; information about the sources used; extracts from primary sources; research guidance; links (University of Wollongong)

Forced labour, workhouse-prisons and the early modern state
seminar paper by Thomas Munck, examining early developments in institutionalised poor relief, through a case study of Danish workhouses and forced labour schemes
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)

Honour, Reputation and Defamation
A bibliography of printed materials relating to defamation and slander, honour and insult (EMR)

John Howard and the prison-world of Europe
E-text of 1852 book (Making of America)

Famous American Trials: John Peter Zenger Trial
Resources relating to the 1735 trial of a Boston printer that is regarded as a landmark in the development of a free press (Douglas Linder)

Justice in eighteenth-century Hackney: justicing notebook of Henry Norris and Hackney petty sessions book
Online edition of Ruth Paley’s edition of these key sources for crime and justice in eighteenth-century London (University of London/History of Parliament Trust)