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  1. Vice, Crime, and Poverty
    How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties—as well as our desires.In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231547260
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    Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; Criminals; Marginality, Social, in literature; Marginality, Social; Urban poor; Kriminalität <Motiv>; Unterwelt <Soziologie>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

  2. Picturing punishment
    the spectacle and material afterlife of the criminal body in the Dutch Republic
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver... more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform civic life. Focusing on material culture associated with key sites of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion, especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. Certain types of objects related to criminal punishments served a key role in asserting republican ideals and demonstrating the ability of officials to maintain order and control. Conversely, the circulation of other types of images, especially inexpensive paintings and prints, had the potential to subvert official messages. As Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest for new knowledge. Combining a diverse array of sources including architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways reintegrated into society

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781487518806; 9781487518813
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    RVK Categories: NN 1364 ; NT 6500 ; NT 3900 ; LO 34360
    Subjects: ART / History / Renaissance; Art, Dutch; Crime; Criminals; Dead in art; Justice in art; Prosecution in art; Punishment in art; Punishment; Todesstrafe <Motiv>; Kunst; Strafe <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 290 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. The night mayor
    Author: Newman, Kim
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Titan Books, London

    Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn't any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer. It is the near future and old-fashioned movies, or "flatties", have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn't any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer. It is the near future and old-fashioned movies, or "flatties", have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by professional Dreamers. When infamous criminal Truro Daine escapes imprisonment, he flees into the City, an artificial world of his own creation, where he rules as the all-powerful Night Mayor

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781165676
    Subjects: Imaginary places; Criminals; Dreams; Horror tales; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Cover; Contents; Also by Kim Newman; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Part I: Get Richie Quick; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Part II: The Bard of the Boulevard; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; Part III: Lady in the Dark; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; Part IV: Darkest Before Dawn; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; …And Other Stories; Dreamers; Patricia's Profession; Twitch Technicolor; Pamela's Pursuit; About the Author; Also Available from Titan Books

  4. Raffles
    further adventures of the amateur cracksman
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va

    Hochschule für Gesundheit, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 058521638X; 9780585216386
    Subjects: Raffles (Fictitious character); Criminals; Criminals; Raffles (Fictitious character)
    Scope: Online Ressource
  5. Les misérables
    MariusVol. 3
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va

    Hochschule für Gesundheit, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 058523261X; 9780585232614
    Subjects: Criminals; Criminals
    Scope: Online Ressource
  6. Les bas-fonds
    histoire d'un imaginaire
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Éditions du Seuil, Paris

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Hi.L.k 101
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    Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, Bibliothek
    Nb 1802
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9782020967624
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: L'univers historique
    Subjects: Urban poor; Marginality, Social; Marginality, Social, in literature; Criminals; Criminals in literature; Inner cities; Crime; Inner cities in literature; Social representations; Deviant behavior in literature
    Scope: 394 Seiten
  7. The tesseract
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Viking, London

    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0670870153; 0670870161
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Subjects: Criminals; Manila (Philippines)
    Scope: 225 S.
  8. Crime and Defoe
    a new kind of writing
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
    HK 1935 F194
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    A 1993/14966
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0521420865
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 16
    Subjects: Crime; Criminals; Social problems in literature; Criminals in literature; Crime in literature
    Other subjects: Defoe, Daniel
    Scope: XIX, 263 S., 24 cm
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    Spine title: Crime & Defoe

    Includes index

  9. Moll Flanders
    Published: c1991
    Publisher:  Knopf, New York, NY

    Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek Flensburg
    HK 1933 M72.991
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0679405488
    Series: Everyman's library ; 32
    Subjects: Children of prisoners; British; Women; Prostitutes; Repentance; Criminals; Picaresque literature; Adventure fiction
    Scope: xxxiii, 338 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxviii)

  10. Saturday
    Author: McEwan, Ian
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 2005/6413
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    Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabte Schwäbisch Gmünd, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0385511809
    RVK Categories: HN 5833
    Edition: 1. ed. in the United States of America
    Subjects: Neurosurgeons; Iraq War, 2003; Traffic accidents; Middle aged men; Family reunions; World politics; Criminals; Road rage
    Scope: 289 S.
  11. Billy Bathgate
    a novel
    Published: c1989
    Publisher:  Random House, New York

    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 039457513X; 0394525299
    Edition: 1st trade ed
    Subjects: Criminals
    Other subjects: Schultz, Dutch (1900 or 1901-1935)
    Scope: [10], 323, [2] p, 24 cm
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    Of the first edition ... three hundred copies have been specially bound. These books are signed by the author and numbered 1 to 300"--Prelim. p. [1]

    A limited first edition of this book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library"--Verso of t.p

  12. How the one-armed sister sweeps her house
    a novel
    Published: October 2021
    Publisher:  Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, New York ; Boston ; London

    Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
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    Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. -- adapted from jacket

     

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  13. Four days
    Author: Buell, John
    Published: [1962]
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York

    Englisches Seminar I, Bibliothek
    411/CAN/Bu12/216
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Subjects: Action and adventure films; Bank robberies; Bank robberies; Criminals; DVD-Video discs; Feature films; Films for the hearing impaired
    Scope: 232 p
  14. Drive
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  No Exit, Harpenden

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
    2019/4165
    Loan of volumes, no copies
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Subjects: Automobile drivers; Stunt performers; Stunt driving; Criminals
    Other subjects: Noir fiction
    Scope: 191 Seiten, 20 cm
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    Film tie-in

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  15. Eugene Aram
    literary history and typology of the scholar-criminal
    Published: 1983
    Publisher:  Archon Books, Hamden, Conn.

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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  16. Family business
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Poseidon Pr., New York

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0671465139
    Subjects: Criminals; Family
    Scope: 281 S.
  17. The boy who followed Ripley
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, New York, NY u.a.

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0140057390
    RVK Categories: HU 3872
    Subjects: Criminals; Psychopaths; Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character); Serial murderers
    Scope: 335 S.
  18. Oliver Twist
    Published: 1982
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford u.a.

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0192815911
    RVK Categories: HL 2580 ; HL 2583
    Series: The world's classics
    Subjects: Criminals; Kidnapping victims; Orphans
    Scope: XXVIII, 363 S., Ill.
  19. Wicked lives
    Funktion und Wandel der Verbrecherbiographie im England des 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhunderts
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Winter, Heidelberg

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3533034933; 3533034941
    RVK Categories: HK 1091 ; PW 9180
    Series: Britannica et Americana / 3 ; 6.
    Subjects: Biografieën; Misdadigers; Geschichte; Biography as a literary form; Brigands and robbers in literature; Crime in literature; Criminals; English literature; English literature; Literary form; Literary form; Repentance in literature; Literatur; Englisch; Krimineller
    Scope: 294 S.
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    Zugl.: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1983

  20. The friends of Eddie Coyle
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, New York, NY

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0140102329
    Subjects: Criminals
    Scope: 183 S.
  21. Das Böse und das Strafrecht
    Published: 1966
    Publisher:  Kindler, München

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Hochschule München, Bibliothek
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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: CW 8000 ; PI 4580
    Series: Kindler-Taschenbücher ; 2021 : Geist und Psyche
    Subjects: Crime; Criminals; Strafe; Strafrecht; Strafrechtstheorie; Strafrechtsreform; Das Böse
    Scope: 138 S.
  22. Backflash
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Mysterious Press, New York, NY

    The master thief, Parker, plots to rob a floating casino on the Hudson River. He puts together a team of robbers, ensures weapons are smuggled on board, and arranges for a getaway boat. The planning is meticulous, but will chance favor the... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    The master thief, Parker, plots to rob a floating casino on the Hudson River. He puts together a team of robbers, ensures weapons are smuggled on board, and arranges for a getaway boat. The planning is meticulous, but will chance favor the enterprise? By the author of Comeback.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0892966629
    Edition: 1. print.
    Subjects: Casinos; Criminals; Hijacking of ships; Parker (Fictitious character); Robbery; Thieves
    Scope: 292 S.
  23. The collected Raffles stories
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Pr., Oxford u.a.

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0192823248
    Series: Oxford popular fiction
    Oxford paperbacks
    Subjects: Criminals; Detective and mystery stories, English; Raffles (Fictitious character)
    Scope: XXI, 408 S.
  24. The wrath of god
    Published: 1971
    Publisher:  Macmillan, London u.a.

    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0333122143
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Brigands and robbers; Criminals
    Scope: 223 S.
  25. Payback
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Warner Books, New York

    It's payback time! Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring Mel Gibson as master theif Parker, who appeared in a series of celebrated crime novels between 1962 and 1974 and returned after 23 years in "Comeback", which was named a... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    It's payback time! Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring Mel Gibson as master theif Parker, who appeared in a series of celebrated crime novels between 1962 and 1974 and returned after 23 years in "Comeback", which was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Crime writer Richard Stark is the pseudonym of Mystery Writers of American Grand Master Donald E. Westlake.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0446674648
    Subjects: Betrayal; Criminals; Parker (Fictitious character); Revenge
    Scope: X, 198 S.