1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies
Jack the Ripper Studies: Introduction and Context
David Nash, Katherine D. Watson and Anne-Marie Kilday
SECTION I Introduction and Victorian Context
1 Victorian Contrasts: Competing Classes and Public and Private
David Nash
2 Jack the Ripper and Outcast London
David Nash
3 Jack the Ripper and Moral Panics
Anne-Marie Kilday
4 Victorian Experiences of Violence
Zoë Alker
5 Policing Victorian London
David J. Cox
SECTION II The Murders and the Victims
6 Jack the Ripper: How Many Victims?
Angela Buckley
7 Jack the Ripper: Serial Killer?
Anne-Marie Kilday
8 Selling Sex in the Victorian Era
Marion Pluskota
9 Jack the Ripper: Victim Histories
Catherine Layton
10 Jack the Ripper: Copycat and Legacy Killings
Paul Williams
SECTION III The Evidence and the Investigation
11 Jack the Ripper and Forensic/Medical Evidence
Katherine D. Watson
12 Jack the Ripper and Witness Testimony
Katherine D. Watson
13 Vigilante Groups and Jack the Ripper
Anne-Marie Kilday
14 Policing Jack the Ripper
Paul Bleakley
15 Profiling Jack the Ripper
Drew Gray
SECTION IV The Suspects and Conspiracy Theories
16 Jack the Ripper and Conspiracy
Roger Dalrymple
17 Jack the Ripper and Medical Men
Katherine D. Watson
18 Jack the Ripper as Manifestation of the Residuum
Amy Milne-Smith
19 Jack the Ripper and Ethnicity/ Racism
Daniel J.R. Grey
20 The Monster Inside: Jack the Ripper and Violence
Helen Johnston and Stephanie Emma Brown
SECTION V Press Reaction and Public Outcry
21 ‘The Lust of the Savage’: Evolution, the Press, and the Whitechapel Murders
Darren Oldridge
22 Reporting the Ripper: A Global News Story
Roger Dalrymple
23 The Press and the Ripper Investigations: Help or Hindrance?
Esther Snell
24 Reforming the Ripper: Possibilities and Impossibilities
Joti Bilkhu
25 Popular Victorian Views on the Jack the Ripper Case
Drew Gray
SECTION VI Official Responses
26 Royalty and the Ripper
Rebecca Frost
27 The Politics of Jack the Ripper
Tahaney Alghrani
28 Police Perspectives on Jack the Ripper: Past and Present
Angela Buckley
29 Jack the Ripper and the Transformation of London’s East End
Joshua Stuart-Bennett
30 The Legal Legacy of Jack the Ripper
Cerian Griffiths and Helen Rutherford
SECTION VII The Legacy of the Ripper: Media and Culture
31 Jack the Ripper as a Publishing Phenomenon
Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
32 Jack the Ripper on Film
Clare Smith
33 Jack the Ripper in Television
Gracie Bain
34 Reconstructing the Jack the Ripper Case: TV Documentaries
Alexa Neale
35 The Material Culture of Jack the Ripper
Brianna Wyatt
SECTION VIII Ripperology and Ripper Scholarship: Past, Present and Future
36 The Construction and Influence of Ripperology
David Nash
37 Celebrity Sleuths of Jack the Ripper
Drew Gray
38 The Sources: An Experienced Writer Reflects
Paul Begg
39 The Historiography of Jack the Ripper
Michael Plater
40 Jack the Ripper: Feminist Approaches
Elyssa Warkentin
Biography
Anne-Marie Kilday is Professor of Crime History at the University of Northampton. She writes and researches on various aspects of criminal history, particularly focusing on violent behaviour and gendered criminality. Anne-Marie is currently completing a handbook for Routledge on European serial killing.
David Nash is Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on the history of blasphemy and the history of secularisation. He has also written extensively on the socio-cultural history of crime and shame using a microhistory approach, with several books on these subjects jointly authored with Professor Anne-Marie Kilday.
Katherine D. Watson is Professor of Criminal Justice History at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in the history of forensic medicine and crime in Britain between 1700 and the Second World War. She recently published Medicine and Justice: Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914 (Routledge, 2020) and is currently working on a book-length study of poisoning crimes in the West.
