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The Problem and Elizabethan England; A Case for the Use of LiteraryWorks in Criminology; The Historical Setting -Shakespeare's England; Crimesand Deviance Committed by Selected Characters; Violence Against the Person;Property Crimes; Noncriminal Deviance and Nonviolent Sexual Deviance;Relationship Between Criminological Theory and the Behaviour of SelectedShakespearean Characters; Classicism - Rational Choice - Macbeth;Lombrosianism, Theories of Heredity and Psychopathy and the AntisocialPersonality; Ecological Theory - Pompey, Froth; Social Learning Theories -Othello, Richard III; Social Control and Bond Theories - Lady Macbeth,Othello, Richard III; Normality of Crime and Strain/Anomie Theories; SocialReaction/Labelling Theory -Shylock; Conflict Theory - Shylock; IntegratedTheories; Social Control and Legal Issues; The Aetiology of Punishment; TheDuke's Judgement; Conclusion and Recommendation; Appendix - Who Was WilliamShakespeare?.