THE CANTING CREW: LONDON'S CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD 1550-1700
Written by John L. McMullan
Published by Rutgers University Press
in 1984
ISBN: 0813510228
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THE CANTING CREW: LONDON'S CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD 1550-1700
Written by John L. McMullan.
Stock no. 1820768
1st.
1984.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A volume in the Crime, Law and Deviance series. Reconstructing the criminal underworld in Elizabethan and Stuart London - an underworld of thieves, pickpockets, confidence cheats, prostitutes, and fences. Analyzing the organizational features of crime. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0813510228. Grubby mark to front pastedown. Date stamped to rear endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with a few closed tears and small chips, grubby to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Making of an Underworld
- 3 The Labor Market, The Law, and Crime
- 4 Criminal Areas
- 5 Coercive Institutions
- 6 The Canting Crew
- 7 Infamous Commerce
- 8 The Mediation of Crime
- 9 Continuity and Change
- Glossary
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index