Crime in Victorian England

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General

• How Safe Was Victorian London?
• Crime and the Victorian Household (by Dickens's son)

Forms of Crime

• Danger inside the Train: Crime on Victorian Railways
• Railway Mania — The Financing of Early Railways, Speculation, and Stock Swindling
• England as "the European center of suicide"
• Prostitution (sitemap)

Preventing and Solving Crime

• The Metropolitan Police Force
• Francis Galton's portable finger-printing kit

Crime in Literature and the Arts

• "What Power; What Grandeur": Swindlers as Objects of Admiration in The Way We Live Now
• Swindlers and Society in Dickens and Carlyle
• Bigamy and the Sensation Novel
• Detective Novels: Whodunits and Thrillers

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Last modified 6 February 2008