Jeannie Duckworth.

Jeannie Duckworth. Fagin's Children: Criminal Children in Victorian England. recently made known York: Hambledon and London; dist. on Palgrave, New York. 2002 Pp x 258 $2995 ISBN 1-85285-391-3

The social changes affecting Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had a deep impact on crime. For example, many children, ignored on the state and neglected from their parents, were left to shift for themselves in the "heinous morass" (p ix) of early nineteenth-century cities. Unsurprisingly, one turned to crime and were brought before and judg by means of the courts. Their ...

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