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Crime

see also Entertainment - Gambling

see also Police and Policing

see also Prisons and Penal System

see also Words - Criminal Slang

 

§ Animal Cruelty

— police duties (1903) 

§ Baby Farming

see The Seven Curses of London, ch.3

§ Beggars and Vagrants

see also The Seven Curses of London, ch.13-15

— beggars

— beggars, Mayhew's classification of 

— begging-letter writers

— blind beggars 

— children begging

— 'the deplorable dodge'

— The Mendicity Society (1) (2)

—'mud-plungers'

— pavement chalkers

— 'a philosophical vagabond'

— 'regular thieves'

— vagrancy (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

— vagrants in Hyde Park

— vagrants in St. James's Park

— warnings to travellers

— workhouses

§ Blackmail and Extortion

— extortion in the street (1) (2)

§ Burglary

— burglars (in 'Round London')

— burglars (in 'London Labour')

— burglary (1) (2) (3) (4)

— fear of

— police duties (1903)

— prevention

§ Con-men and Counterfeit

see also Beggars above

— auction-rigging (1) (2) (3)

— card-sharps

— charity collecting scams

— cheats, Mayhew's classification of

— constable's perks, abusing

— counterfeit coins (1) (2)  (3)

— counterfeit coins, police duties re

— 'domestic diddlers'

— duffers

— the 'established business' swindle

— fare-dodging

— horse makers

— 'loan-office sharks' (1) (2)

— 'long firms'

— the match-girl

— mock employment agencies

— pawners

— 'The Precatory Order'

— returning a van scam

— sham-indecent literature

— sham poverty

— as street-traders

— thimble-rigging

— tipsters

§ Guns

— guns used in murders

— police duties (1903)

§ Poisoning

— poisons

— Vance and Snee case 1876

§ Pornography and Indecency

see also Sex - Sexuality

— graffiti

— Holywell Street, as centre for illicit prints

— indecent assault

— indecent exposure

— indecent literature and prints &c.

— indecent objects

— photographs in shop windows

— pornographic photography

— police regulation of adverts (1903)

— Society for the Suppression of Vice

— unnatural offences

§ Prostitution

see also Alhambra

see also Argyll Rooms

see also Charities(various)

see also Cremorne Gardens

see also Dancing Rooms

see also Female Preventive & Reformatory Inst.

see alsoHaymarket

see also Music Halls - Prostitution

see also The Seven Curses of London, Chpt 16-19

see also The St. Marylebone Female Protection Society

see also Tiger Bay

see also Venereal Disease

— attitudes towards

— brothels and accommodation

— 'Catherine Street'

— causes of prostitution

— classes of prostitutes

— dress lodgers

— East End prostitutes

— first person accounts

— flower -girls

— 'The Great Social Evil' (Punch)

— Mayhew on prostitution

— numbers of prostitutes

— prostitution as 'transitory state'

— prostitutes in public houses

— regulation of prostitution

— reform of prostitutes

— 'The Road to Ruin'

— 'seduction'

— 'seeing gentlemen'

— on Waterloo Bridge

§ Statistics

— juvenile crime, 1840s (Mayhew) (1) (2) (3)  

— statistics 1858 (Ewing Ritchie)

§ Suicide

— 'Alone in London'

— burial of suicides

— drowning

— examples

— in Hyde Park

— legal proceedings

§ Terrorism

— 'dynamite men'

— dynamite outrages

§ Thieves

see alsoThe Seven Curses of London, Chpt 7-8

— 'An Eveing with Forty Thieves'

— bicycle theft 

— boy thieves (1) (2) (3)

— carriage thieves

— child pickpockets/thieves

— dog stealers

— fences

— horse-hair

— house-thieves

— pickpockets

— poisoned flowers & cigars, use of 

— robbers of children's possessions

— shoplifting

— 'the swell mob'

— 'thieves'(1) (2)

— thieves, Mayhew's classification of

— thieves in Bethnal Green (Archer)

— thieves in Hyde Park

— till-lifting

— waiting-room sneaks

— warnings to travellers

§ Traffic Offences

— 'furious driving'

§ Violence, Murders and Assaults

see also Women - Children, Family and Husband - Wife Beating

— 'black eyes concealed'

— 'conspiracy to murder'

— a coroner's inquest

— corsets offering protection

— criminal literature

— fights (1) (2)

— fines

— gangs (1) (2)

— gangs, girls (in fiction)

— garotting / mugging

— 'hooligan boys'

— indecent assault

— 'Jack the Ripper'

— 'Jack the Ripper', mistaken for

— 'the man-basher'

— murder: Thomas Briggs, 1864

— murder: Cecilia 'Sissy' Aldridge, 1870

— murder: Mr. Huelin, 1870

— murder: Walter Lee, 1870

— murder: Sarah Redhead, 1870

— murder: James Rutter, 1870

— murder: Jane Maria Clousen, 1871

— murder: Thomas Galloway, 1871

— murder: Frederick Moon, 1871

— murder: Anne Watson, 1871

— murder: Arthur Bernard, 1872

— murder: Harriet Buswell, 1872

— murder: Ellen Marney, 1872

— murder: George Merritt, 1872

— murder: Madame Riel, 1872

— murder: Sarah Ann Rogers, 1872

— murder: Richard Salt, 1872

— murder: Sarah & Christiana Squires, 1872

— murder: Charles Starkie, 1872

— murder: Eliza Venables, 1872

— murder: Parker children, 1873

— murder: James Sibley, 1873

— murder: Elizabeth Amos, 1874

— murder: Emma Coppen, 1874

— murder: James Farrell, 1874

— murder: Mary Ann Ford, 1874

— murder: Henry Ernest Scrivener, 1874

— murder: 'Teddy', 1875

— murder: Harriet Lane, 1875

— murder: Jane Soper, 1875

— murder: Lydia Chapman, 1876

— murder: William Collins, 1876

— murder: John Broom Tower, 1884

— police duties (1903)

— rape 

— riots

— 'Spring-Heeled Jack'

— vandalism 

— vigilantes

— vitriol attacks

— 'The Wifeslayer's Home'