Key Reading

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society, chapter 2
  

Sources

• T Barwick Lloyd Baker, 'Abstract and inferences founded upon the official returns of England and Wales, 1854-9 with special reference to the results of reformatories', Journal of the Statistical Society, 1860, pp. 427-54
  
• James T Hammick, 'On the judicial statistics of England and Wales', Journal of the Statistical Society, 1867, pp. 375-426
  
• 'Discrepant criminal statistics', Journal of the Statistical Society, 1868, pp. 349-53
  
• William Douglas Morrison, 'The increase of crime', Nineteenth Century, 1892, pp. 950-7 and E Du Cane, 'The decrease of crime', Nineteenth Century, 1893, pp. 480-92
  
• Criminal Statistics of England and Wales, 1893