Download or read book Property Crime in London, 1850–Present written by W. Meier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts.