1806: Patrick Colquhoun published A Treatise on...
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1806
Patrick Colquhoun
published A Treatise on Indigence, exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour.
1816: The Select Committee on Police heard from...
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1816
The Select Committee on Police heard from Patrick Colquhoun
that prostitutes derive a considerable proportion of their subsistence by the robbery of those who come into contact with them.
Tobias, John Jacob. Urban Crime in Victorian England. Shocken Books.