He has previously published: The Fall of the Sessions Paper: The Criminal Trial and the Popular Press in Late Eighteenth-Century London, Criminal Justice History, 2003, XVIII, pp. 57-88. He has also co-edited (with A.N May. and G.T Smith)., Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie, Toronto, Centre of Criminology, 1998; and (with P. Griffiths) Punishing the English: Essays in Penal Politics and Culture 1500-1900, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2004. He is currently researching Criminal justice and the state in Hanoverian England.