Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment, 4-Volume Set

1569 Pages·2022·10.85 MB·English

by  Victor Bailey

NINETEENTH-CENTURY
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

NINETEENTH-CENTURY
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Edited by
Victor Bailey
Volume I
Crime and Criminals
First published 2022
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CONTENTS
About the editor x
Acknowledgements xi
General introduction 1
Introduction to Volume I: Crime and criminals 21
Images 46
PART 1
Crime numbers 49
1 “First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as
to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary
Force,” 1839, excerpts 51
2 Archibald Alison, “Imprisonment and Transportation:
The Increase of Crime,” 1844, excerpt 61
3 Anon., “The Statistics of Female Crime,” 1858 68
4 Mayhew and Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London, 1862,
excerpt 73
5 W.D. Morrison, “The Increase of Crime,” 1892 77
6 E.F. Du Cane, “The Decrease of Crime,” 1893 86
7 “Report from the Departmental Committee on Prisons,”
1895, excerpt 99
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PART 2
Types of crime 103
2.1
Juvenile crime 105
8 Stephen Lushington, evidence to “Report from the Select
Committee on the State of the Gaols,” 1819, excerpt 107
9 John Wade, Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the
Metropolis, 1829, excerpt 114
10 W.A. Miles, evidence of thieves, c. 1835 119
11 W.A. Miles, two female cases, c. 1837 123
2.2
Female crime 125
12 Violent theft: robbery, 29 May 1828, Mary Young, aged 22 127
13 Theft: pocketpicking, Oct. 1840, Mary Bailey, aged 18;
theft: stealing from master, May 1842, Elizabeth Jones,
aged 14 135
14 Killing: infanticide, 9 April 1829, Martha Barrett, aged 36 137
15 Edwin Lankester, “Infanticide,” 1866 140
16 “Dr. Lankester on Child Murder,” 1866 149
17 Henry Mayhew, statement of a prostitute, London Labour
and the London Poor, 1862 150
18 Rev. G.P. Merrick, Work Among the Fallen as Seen in the
Prison Cell, 1890, excerpts 154
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2.3
Social crime 161
19 George Bishop, Observations, Remarks, and Means,
to Prevent Smuggling, 1783, excerpts 163
20 Royal offences: tax offences, 27 Feb. 1788, John Bishop 169
21 W.A. Miles on Cheshire wrecking, 1837 175
2.4
Ethnic crime 181
22 “First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire
as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient
Constabulary Force,” 1839, excerpt 183
23 Board of Trade (Alien Immigration), “Reports on the
Volume and Effects of Recent Immigration from Eastern
Europe Into the U.K.,” 1894, excerpts 188
PART 3
Causes of crime 191
24 William Mainwaring, An Address to the Grand Jury of
the County of Middlesex, 1785, excerpts 193
25 P. Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis,
1797, excerpt 199
26 Anon., Observations on a Late Publication: Intituled A
Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, 1800, excerpts 204
27 W.A. Miles, A Letter to Lord John Russell Concerning
Juvenile Delinquency, 1837, excerpt 215
28 Archibald Alison, “Causes of the Increase of Crime,” 1844 227
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29 “First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire
as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient
Constabulary Force,” 1839, excerpt 246
30 Rev. John Clay, “On the Effect of Good or Bad Times on
Committals to Prison,” 1855 251
31 Richard Hussey Walsh, “A Deduction from the Statistics
of Crime for the Last Ten Years,” 1857 258
32 W.D. Morrison, “The Study of Crime,” 1892, excerpt 260
PART 4
Dangerous and criminal classes 273
33 Archibald Alison, “Causes of the Increase of Crime,”
1844, excerpts 275
34 Jelinger Symons, Tactics for the Times: As Regards the
Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes,
1849, excerpts 278
35 Thomas Plint, Crime in England, Its Relation, Character,
and Extent, 1851, excerpt 280
36 Henry Mayhew, evidence to the “Select Committee on
Transportation,” 1856, excerpts 287
37 Henry Mayhew, “Statement of a Returned Convict,” 1861 290
38 Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London,
Religious Influences, Vol. 2, 1902, excerpts 294
39 Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London,
Poverty, Vol. 1, 1902, excerpts 297
40 Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London,
Poverty, Vol. 1, 1902, excerpt 300
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