HIST 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Habitual Offender, Machinist, The Illustrated Police News
9 Aug 2016
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Artful dodgers, youth and crime in early nineteenth-century london . If few juveniles were indicted for the more serious capital crimes such as burglary, robbery and the theft of livestock, even fewer were indicted for crimes against the person: murder, manslaughter, rape and other sexual crimes. 694 were categorized as reputed thieves; 360 as being in unlawful possession of property; Starring the glaze" was considered as breaking and entering" by indictment, despite the fact that the offender may not have even entered the premises. In practice the distinction between the 2 seemed to rest on 2 factors: that burglary" was committed at night, that there would generally be evidence of actually breaking" into the house. In the case of larceny, however, the defendant was already in the house, either as a member of the household, or having walked in, as in the case of a shop.
