Canting Crew, The – London‘s Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700 – Historical Book – Rutgers University Press from Rutgers University Press

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John McMullan reconstructs the criminal underworld in Elizabethan and Stuart London. An Underworld of thieves, pickpockets, confidence cheats, prostitutes and fences. Using historical sources, literary materials and crime life histories, McMullan analyzes the organizational features of crime. He dwells, in particular, on its distinct language, social institutions, divisions of labor and territory.