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Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd

studies have relied upon when tracing offenders’ former lives, instances of recidivism or offending context. For example, neither birth, marriage and death records nor contiguous census records have been used in tracing the socio-economic context of individuals. Crime and Poverty in 19th-Century England is not without merit. It gives us new information on crime and poverty in Kent and Oxfordshire in the nineteenth century. Ager also provides some interesting evidence about the differences urban and rural communities might experience. However, the overwhelming impression with which this book leaves the reader is one of poor contextualization and limited knowledge of the wider field. Covering areas as diverse as community protest in the early part of the nineteenth century, life under the New Poor Law and prostitution in the 1880s, it feels in some places as if Ager has collected a miscellany of information relating broadly to his topic and is struggling to make it all fit together. Ultimately, the biggest failing of this study is in making grand claims about methodological innovation, and scholarly originality, which the author is then unable to substantiate in any meaningful way.