Research project
A Historical Criminology of Illicit Alcohol Markets and their Regulation
- Start date: 1 October 2021
- End date: 30 November 2022
- Funder: The Leverhulme Trust
- Value: £57,803
- Primary investigator: Professor Henry Yeomans
Illegal production, adulteration and other illicit alcohol enterprises pose serious, historically-persistent problems for governments and law enforcement agencies. Studies of this topic are limited and concentrate overwhelmingly on illicit alcohol markets in specific times/places, often during exceptional conditions of prohibition. Instead, this inter-disciplinary project offers a long-term study of the changing relationships between illicit alcohol markets, law enforcement and alcohol regulation in England and Wales over more than a century. Its unique longitudinal focus will provide new explanations of the persistence of illicit alcohol markets, offer original historical insights into current policy debates and further the emergence of historical criminology.
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Yeomans H. 2024. Reconnecting genealogies of criminal justice and excise tax enforcement. Theoretical Criminology.
Yeomans H. 2023. Illicit Alcohol Markets and Everyday Crime: A Historical Re-Conceptualisation. The British Journal of Criminology 64 (4), pp.980-999.