The Criminal Type in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain: Hamilton, Gorse and Heath
This article uses Patrick Hamilton’s fictionalisation of aspects of the case of Neville Heath, who was sentenced to death for murder and hanged in 1946, as the focal point for a discussion of how notions of criminality were shifting in Britain in the wake of the Second World War. Hamilton’s novel Th...
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Open Library of Humanities |
| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4586/ |