ClaraC12

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Source suggestion

Good choice! Beattie Crime and the Courts will be useful, as well as Hitchcock & Shoemaker ch 4. I also have an article I could pass on. --Jfclegg (talk) 19:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Moll Flanders

Would you like to make brief presentation on Moll as pickpocket - in say 2 weeks? --Jfclegg (talk) 20:46, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

article & presentation

The article is Gender & History ISSN 0953-5233 Robert B. Shoemaker, ‘Print and the Female Voice: Representations of Women’s Crime in London, 1690–1735’ Gender & History, Vol.22 No.1 April 2010, pp. 75–91. See if this is in jstor - if not I'll put it in my iSA. BVBut you need to get used to using our banche dati. 2 weeks is fine for the presentation - just 5 minutes. Please check your spelling of the crime you are investigating and of the name of Defoe's protagonist! These things are important!--Jfclegg (talk) 14:49, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Well done! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jfclegg (talk • contribs) 15:01, 23 October 2015 (UTC) I think I have another article on shoplifting in my office...--Jfclegg (talk) 13:41, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Ballad

Here's nice 17th century ballad on cut-purses ( ie pickpockets - you know that pockets were not stitched into clothes till much later) EBBA ID: 30274 British Library - Roxburghe 2.46-47

A Caveat for Cut-purses. / With a warning to all purse-carriers: Shewing the confi- / dence of the first, and the carelessnesse of the last; With necessary admonitions for / them both, lest the Hangman get the one, and the Begger take the other.

Date Published 1647-1665 ?

You'll find it (and probably others on the topic)  on the web site

http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu It goes to a very popular tune. --Jfclegg (talk) 18:57, 7 November 2015 (UTC)