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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent history of how civilizations have dealt with crime, October 18, 2007
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This book is a very thorough review on how societies dealt with the problem of crime including its relationships to criminals such as pirates being used initially in the naval armed forces, used against other criminal elements like Jonathan Wild and the development of the convict system in Australia and the penal system in the USA.

It primarily deals with Britain and the United States. For example, it discusses how they developed law enforcement authorities starting wtih London and then New York and then elsewhere.

It's a very thorough read on societies' relationship to its criminal element and how the criminal element operated within society and the evolution of societies' means of dealing with it.
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