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Property Crime in London, 1850-Present (Hardcover, New)
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Property Crime in London, 1850-Present (Hardcover, New)
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This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian
"miracle" of low and diminishing crime to its status as a
high-crime society at the outset of the twenty-first century. It
treats six different types of misdeed--burglary, shopbreaking,
shoplifting, confidence schemes, robbery, and drug smuggling--as
representative of distinct phases in the evolution of criminal
activity and the criminal-justice system in modern Britain. This is
the first book to offer an expansive analysis of twentieth-century
thieves and to challenge the notion that they operated in a
self-contained underworld. It argues that to understand the growth
of lawbreaking we must connect sensational and mundane offenses
alike to their social and economic contexts, with a particular
focus on how these contexts, including experience within the penal
system, shaped criminal decision-making and expanded opportunities
for transgression.
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