CRIMINAL ISLINGTON The Story of Crime and Punishment in a Victorian Suburb.

Author: Sugden (Keith) Ed. by:
Year: 1989
Publisher: Islington Archaeology & History Soc.
Edition Details: 1st Edn.
Book Condition: F.
ISBN: 0950753246
Price: £10.00
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Paperback. Foreword by Shaw Taylor of 'Police Five'. Imagine yourself in a rookery - a criminal ghetto of pickpocketing schools and receiving houses, intersected by a dense network of secret escape routes where no sane policeman would follow. Such was the background to the murder, theft and radical activism described in these pages. Read how the new police force and wholesale redevelopment combined to defeat the rookeries; or of the harsh prisons and the villains sentenced to transportation. Contents include : the Fenians; the Killing of PC Culley; The Suffragettes; Famous Murder Cases (1834-1918) which include Johann Steinberg, Sach and Walters (baby-farming), G.J.Smith, Dr. Crippen, Frederick Seddon; Policing; Victorian Prisons; Other forms of Victorian Punishment (including the Death Penalty and transportation). Illus., Folding Map and Index. 90pp. Paper wraps. F. with no creasing to covers.

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