Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime imposing the law riots and political crime punishments manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society threats to public order crimes against property and the person statutory creation of new crimes law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern criminal: poverty, prosperity and the criminal crime - and technology, sex, subversion, insanity, drink and drugs, punishment, sensation.