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 
            [ILN Picture Library] 

    — 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)
    — 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
    — horse makers
    — 'loan-office sharks' (1) (2) 
    — 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    
   
— Holywell Street, as centre for illicit prints    
    — indecent exposure 
    — indecent literature and prints &c.
    — indecent objects
    — photographs in shop windows 
    — 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 and 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
    — 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
    — 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 
§  Violence, Murders and Assaults
    see also Women - Children, Family and 
        Husband - Wife Beating
    
    — 'black eyes concealed'
   
— 'conspiracy to murder' 
   
— a coroner's inquest
   
— fights (1) (2)
   
— fines
   
— gangs 
    — garotting / mugging
    — 'Jack the Ripper'
    — '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 Squires, 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 

    — police duties (1903)
    — rape 
    — riots
    — 'Spring-Heeled Jack' 
    — vandalism 
    — vigilantes
    — vitriol attacks
    — 'The Wifeslayer's Home'