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 also Haymarket
    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 also The 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
   
— 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'