Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Creating the 'Myth' of Jack the Ripper -- STRUCTURE AND SOURCES -- THE USUAL SUSPECTS: THE SEARCH FOR THE IDENTITY OF JACK THE RIPPER -- 2 Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London: The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 in Context -- MURDER WILL OUT! HOMICIDE IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD -- THE RIPPER IN CONTEXT: SERIAL KILLERS IN CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS -- CONCLUSION -- 3 East Meets West: The Contrasting Nature of Victorian London and the Mixed Community of the East End -- COPING WITH CHANGE: VICTORIAN VIEWS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND TOWN -- DEFINING THE EAST END -- THE PEOPLES OF THE ABYSS: THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES OF THE EAST END -- STRIKING A BLOW FOR THE WORKERS: THE MATCH GIRLS'S TRIKE AT BRYANT AND MAY'S -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Read All About It! Ripper News and Sensation in Victorian Society -- THE RISE AND RISE OF THE VICTORIAN PRESS -- WILLIAM T. STEAD AND THE NEW JOURNALISM OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- SENSATION AND THE PRESS: FACT AND FICTION COMBINED IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY POPULAR CULTURE -- THE LONDON MONSTER, SPRING HEELED JACK AND SWEENEY TODD: SENSATION, OUTRAGE AND MURDER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LONDON -- MORAL PANICS AND FOLK DEVILS: THE 'GARROTTER'S LUNCH' EXPLORED -- CONCLUSION -- 5 The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: Poverty, Charity and the Fear of Revolution -- THE BITTER CRY AND THE HOMES OF THE POOR: MIDDLE-CLASS VISIONS OF THE UNDERCLASS -- ENTERING THE ABYSS: HOUSING CONDITIONS IN THE EAST END -- DOSSERS, CASUALS AND DOWN-AND-OUTS: THE REALITY OF HOUSING CONDITIONS BEYOND THE MODEL DWELLING -- THE 'WEST END RIOTS' AND THE ROLE OF THE POLICE -- THE BOSANQUETS AND WEBBS: COMPETING IDEOLOGIES OF REFORM -- 'BLOODY SUNDAY' AND THE EVENTS OF NOVEMBER 1887.

6 City of Dreadful Delights: Vice, Prostitution and Victorian Society -- CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTIONS OF PROSTITUTION IN LONDON -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION AND ITS TOLERATION IN BRITAIN -- THE 'MAIDEN TRIBUTE' AND THE TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- REVISING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PROSTITUTION -- IMAGINING THE LIVES OF EAST END PROSTITUTES: THE VICTIMS OF THE RIPPER -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Crime and the Criminal Class in Late Victorian London -- HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE IDEA OF A CRIMINAL CLASS -- LONDON POLICE COURTS: THE NATURE OF SUMMARY JUSTICE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CAPITAL -- PUNISHING FELONS: THE TRIUMPH OF INCARCERATION -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Watching the Detectives: The Police and the Hunt for Jack the Ripper -- THE HISTORY OF POLICING IN ENGLAND: A GRADUAL MOVE TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISM -- FENIAN DYNAMITARDS: THE METROPOLITAN POLICE AND EARLY IRISH REPUBLICAN TERRORISM IN LONDON -- HEADLESS AND CLUELESS? THE HUNT FOR THE RIPPER -- CONCLUSION -- 9 London's Shadows: The Darker Side of the Victorian Capital -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.