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To Go and Look for Law (2025)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (in press). To Go and Look for Law. History Workshop Journal,

Focusing on the crown colonies acquired by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, this article examines the integration of state oversight with colonial labor discipline during the final decades of slavery. The structural foundations post-emancipation... Read More about To Go and Look for Law.

Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean (2022)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (2022). Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean. English Historical Review, 137(589), 1662-1692. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead002

This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal... Read More about Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean.

‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18 (2020)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (2020). ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18. Twentieth Century British History, 31(4), 503–529. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046

The study of the state's interventionist role on the home front, and the increased regulation of minority groups in particular, have become an important component to our historical understanding of how modern British society changed during the First... Read More about ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18.

“Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England (2015)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (in press). “Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England. Law and History Review, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248015000280

One of the most striking changes in the penal culture of fin-de-siècle Europe was England's reform of adjudication and punishment. In this “de-moralization of criminality,” the system began to shed its punitive sentencing, which often saw minor offen... Read More about “Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England.

"A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914 (2014)
Book Chapter
Auerbach, S. (2014). "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914. Transnational Penal Cultures. Routledge

The relationship of twentieth-century democracies to the explicit employment of fear and intimidation within their own national borders was an ambivalent one. On the one hand, police and judicial officials, responding to perceived public outcry or th... Read More about "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914.