The Victorian Underworld Condition:Very Good from medicine to policy

from medicine to policy

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The Victorian Underworld Condition:Very Good from medicine to policyBeneath the respectable surface of Victorian society lay a criminal world as diverse, as turbulent, and at times as vicious as any that has existed. Policemen could only stand in awe of the occupations and illegal practices which grew up. Kellow Chesney begins his book by taking a general look at the society and its penal methods. Then, ranging over the whole spectrum of underworld life from travelling showmen and religious fakes to cracksmen,