Product Description

Published by Allen Lane, London, 1991
ISBN 0713990457
Condition Very Good

In 18th century London the gallows at Tyburn was the dramatic focus of a struggle between the rich and the poor. Most of the London hanged were executed for property crimes and the chief lesson that the gallows had to teach was 'Respect private property.' The author suggests that property owners, by their exploitation of the emergent working class, substantially determined the nature of crime, and that crime in turn shaped the development of the economic system. 484pp illustrated in black and white.