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Bibliography: Crime
General
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Breaking the Peace
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Deception
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Killing
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- Shoemaker, Robert. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England. London, 2004.
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Offences Against the Crown
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Sexual Offences
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Theft
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