General Resources on the History of New York City
Jackson, K., ed. (1993) Encyclopedia of New York City. New York: Yale University Press.
Useful for concise articles on a variety of NYC history subjects. Particularly recommended are the articles on Crime and Courts. Reference – E128.7 G64
New York Times Historical Index: Accessible via the John Jay Library webpage, under shortcuts to popular databases provides online access The New York Times from 1851 – 5 years ago.
A Selection of Books about the History of New York City Crime:
Abelson, E. S. (1992). When Ladies Go a-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. New York: Oxford University Press. Stacks - HV 6658 .A24 1992
Alexander, R. M. (1995) The girl problem: female sexual delinquency in New York, 1900-1930. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995. Stacks - HV 9105 .N7 A67 1995
Arnold, M. H. (1989). “The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman: Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790–1820.” In , K. Peiss and C. Simmons eds. Passion and Power: Sexuality in History Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Stacks – HQ18 U5 P37 1989
Crapsey, E. (1872). The Nether Side of New York. Montclair, N.J., Patterson Smith.
Stacks - HV6795.N5 C8 1969
Fried, A. (1980). The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Stacks - HV6194 .J4 F74
Gilfoyle, T. J. A pickpocket's tale: the underworld of nineteenth-century New York.
Stacks - HV6653 .A66 G55 2006
Gilfoyle, T. J. (1992). City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and theCommercialization of Sex, 1820-1920. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton Stacks - HQ 146 .N7 .G55 1992
Monkkonen, E. H. (2001). Murder in New York City. Berkeley: University of California Press. Stacks - HV 6534 .N5 M65 2001
Odem, M. E (1995) Delinquent daughters: protecting and policing adolescent female sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Stacks - HQ 27.5 .O34 1995 (available as e-book from our CUNY+ Catalog)
Stacks & Reserve - HQ 767.5 .U5 R378 1997 (available as e-book from CUNY+ Catalog)
Sante, L. (1992). Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Vintage Books Stacks - F128.47 .S23 1992
Robertson, S. (1998): "Signs, Marks and Private Parts: Doctors, Legal Discourses and Evidence of Rape in the United States, 1823-1930," Journal of the History of Sexuality 8/3: 372-385.
Schatzberg, R. (1993). Black organized crime in Harlem, 1920-1930. New York : Garland Pub. Stacks - HV 6452 .N7 S34 1993
Sutton, C. (1973). The New York Tombs: Its Secrets and Its Mysteries. Montclair, N.J., Patterson Smith. Stacks - HV9481.N62 T68 1973
Tappan, P. W. (1969). Delinquent girls in court; a study of the Wayward Minor. Montclair, N.J., Patterson Smith. Stacks - KFX 2007.35 .T3 1969