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The Victorian Underworld. Donald Thomas. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
All people interested in human deviance, crime and Victorian England needs to own and read this book. It is the very source and interpretation of activity of what seems, from the accumulation of evidence, to have been most of Victorian society, from the Swells to the lowest. The figures demonstrating the rottenness and weakness of the society are almost overwhelming....





