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Drunkenness (Crime)

Here are entered works on alcoholic intoxication as a criminal offense or as a factor of criminal liability. Works on the relation between alcoholism and criminal behavior or the incidence of crime are entered under the heading Alcoholism and crime.

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• Crime
• Criminal liability

• Drunkenness (Crime) -- Great Britain
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• Intoxication (Crime)

• History of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (Cardiff: D. Owen and Co., 1885), by E. Beavan
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Delinquents, With Appendix and Index (does not include separate Report volume; Edinburgh: Printed for HMSO by Neill and Co., 1895), by Scotland Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Inebriates, etc., contrib. by Charles Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Celebrated Crimes, by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, by Lysander Spooner (HTML with commentary at mind-trek.com)

• Major Barbara, with an Essay as First Aid to Critics (New York: Brentano's, 1920), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of Real Life (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1787), by Charlotte Smith, contrib. by François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family: How Conformist Intellectuals Have Campaigned Against Common Sense (c1993), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries (London, S. Paul and Co., c1924), by Charles E. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Convict: A Statistical Study (1913), by Charles Goring (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries, by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)

• De Mau Mau: A Factual Account of Racism in the White Press (ca. 1973), by De Mau Mau Defense Fund (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of a West Indian Policeman: or, Forty-Seven Years in the Jamaica Constabulary (Kingston: The Gleaner Co., 1927), by Herbert T. Thomas (page images at ufl.edu)

• Crimes of Need: Results of the Malawi National Crime Victimisation Survey (2004), by Eric Pelser, Patrick Burton, and Lameck Gondwe (PDF (without cover) with commentary at issafrica.org)

• The Cry of Sodom Enquired Into, Upon Occasion of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for His Prodigious Villany, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• The Vigilantes of Montana: or, Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains (Virginia City, MT: Montana Post Press, 1866), by Thos. J. Dimsdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vigilantes of Montana: or, Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains (fourth edition, with Noyes's History of Southern Montana; Helena: State Pub. Co., n.d.), by Thos. J. Dimsdale, contrib. by Alva Josiah Noyes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)

• True Detective (partial serial archives)
• National Police Gazette (partial serial archives)
• Official Detective Stories (partial serial archives)

• Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Victimisation in Tanzania: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara (2004), by Aki Stavrou and Jennifer O'Riordan (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Authentic History of Sam Bass and His Gang (originally published 1878, attributed to "A Citizen of Denton County" and later to Bates; reprinted Bandera, TX: Frontier Times, 1950), by Edmond Franklin Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and Adventures of Sam Bass, the Notorious Union Pacific and Texas Train Robber (Dallas: Dallas Commercial Steam Print, 1878)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 17 (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Community (originally published 1938; this edition New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963), by Frank Tannenbaum, contrib. by Morris Ploscowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Age of Crime (New York: Mohawk Press, 1931), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Is a Crime Wave Coming? (1946), by Thorsten Sellin (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• The Giant Killers (New York: R.M. McBride, c1945), by Alan Hynd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries (London, S. Paul and Co., c1924), by Charles E. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States Criminal Calendar, or An Awful Warning to the Youth of America: Being an Account of the Most Horrid Murders, Piraces, Highway Robberies, &c. &c. (Boston: C. Gaylord, 1840), ed. by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries, by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
• Courts and Criminals, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective Agency (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1912), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Banditti of the Plains: or, The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892, "The Crowning Infamy of the Ages" (with a new foreword; San Francisco: Printed for G. Fields by the Grabhorn Press, 1935), by A. S. Mercer, contrib. by James Mitchell Clarke, illust. by Arvilla Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Banditti of the Plains: or, The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 (Cheyenne: The author, ca. 1894), by A. S. Mercer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Romanticism and Conspiracy (1997), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Christopher P. Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), ed. by Katharine Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.