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Dreadful crime! Deer‐keeper feloniously resisted!
Author(s) -
Fanshawe Tom
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2006.00186.x
Subject(s) - misdemeanor , girl , criminology , threshing , law , history , political science , psychology , archaeology , developmental psychology
In 1837, a child under the age of 12 was prosecuted for what was officially described as “Misdemeanor—Administering Poison to Harass and Annoy.” The boy or girl, whose name is unknown, was acquitted. Tom Fanshawe delves into Dickensian crime statistics and finds atrocious murders and a threshing machine destroyed.