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Crime and Punishment in Victorian London
Crime loomed large in the minds of Victorian Londoners. All over the city, watches, purses and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets, goods migrate from warehouses, off docks and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. 'Pornographers proliferate and an estimated 80,000 prostitutes operate on London's streets. The vulnerable are robbed in dark alleys or garroted, a new kind of mugging in which the victim is half-strangled from behind while being stripped of his possessions...' Discover Victo.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101854
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Event/1800_1899
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Topic/crime
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Topic/punishment_england_london_history_19th_century
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Place/london_england
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204271
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Event/1800_1950
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Place/great_britain
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Topic/social_conditions
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Topic/crime_england_london_history_19th_century
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Topic/punishment
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/882984
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Topic/social_science_criminology
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919811
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1761758837#Place/england
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- "Crime loomed large in the minds of Victorian Londoners. All over the city, watches, purses and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried out in West End stores and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. Ross Gilfillan uncovers London's lost criminal past in this fascinating account of nineteenth century low-life."
- "Crime loomed large in the minds of Victorian Londoners. All over the city, watches, purses and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets, goods migrate from warehouses, off docks and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. 'Pornographers proliferate and an estimated 80,000 prostitutes operate on London's streets. The vulnerable are robbed in dark alleys or garroted, a new kind of mugging in which the victim is half-strangled from behind while being stripped of his possessions...' Discover Victo."@en