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Crime in a Communist Utopia

18 Apr 2019
“Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off…
18th century…

Bandits and Robbers of India

9 Feb 20199 Feb 2019
By Stephen Basdeo During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company established a number of fortified trading settlements—“factories”—in various parts of the Indian subcontinent. The trading company…
19th Century…

Blind Justice in Eugene Sue’s “The Mysteries of Paris” (1842–3)

26 Jul 201826 Jul 2018
By Stephen Basdeo In the 19 June 1842, issue of the Parisian magazine, Journal des Debats, a new serialised novel appeared entitled The Mysteries of Paris, which ran weekly until 15 October 1843.…
Ancient History…

Dimas and Gestas: Bandits Crucified with Christ

13 Jun 2018
By Stephen Basdeo Banditry and outlawry always flourish whenever and wherever the state is weak and/or unwilling to enforce its laws. Medieval England is a prime example of this, and…
11th Century…

The Virgin and the Outlaw

5 Jun 2018
By Stephen Basdeo In modern popular culture, heroes often possess some supernatural powers, or at other times they are so skilled at what they do that their superiority often appears…
19th Century…

An English Republican’s View of Crime and its Causes

19 May 201819 May 2018
By Stephen Basdeo George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814-79) was one of the Victorian era’ most prolific novelists. Inspired by Eugene Sue’s Mysteries of Paris (1843), Reynolds’s famous The Mysteries of…

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