Fashioning an ex-crook self: citizenship and criminality in the work of Netley Lucas.

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  • Author(s): Houlbrook M;Houlbrook M
  • Source:
    20 century British history [20 Century Br Hist] 2013; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 1-30.
  • Publication Type:
    Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Oxford University Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9015384 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0955-2359 (Print) Linking ISSN: 09552359 NLM ISO Abbreviation: 20 Century Br Hist
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Eynsham, Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1990-
    • Subject Terms:
      Crime* ; Criminology* ; Writing*; Autobiographies as Topic ; Criminals ; History, 20th Century ; Journalism ; United Kingdom
    • Subject Terms:
      Lucas N
    • Abstract:
      This essay uses the autobiographical and journalistic work of the confidence trickster Netley Lucas to explore the possibilities and problems of writing as an ex-crook in inter-war Britain. In so doing, it considers the intersections between emerging forms of mass culture, popular and scientific narratives of criminality, and increasingly heated debates about the social and institutional management of crime. This case study provides an opportunity to think critically about the extent to which inter-war criminology was the modernizing project it often claimed to be. In the hands of Lucas and others, different modes of writing about crime bled into one another. Older forms of criminal confession coexisted with 'modern' criminological knowledge as mutually constitutive ways of apprehending the social.
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20130327 Date Completed: 20130430 Latest Revision: 20191210
    • Publication Date:
      20231215
    • Accession Number:
      10.1093/tcbh/hws005
    • Accession Number:
      23527461