ABSTRACT
The world is afflicted with crime, misery, and poverty, and these evils are far too abundant in Liverpool. In the industrial cities of the north of England, subject to massive and turbulent expansion during the period, questions of criminality and its remedy were seen to be just as pressing as in the capital. Crime is narrated as a failure of moral fibre, an unfortunate inability to resist the temptations to luxury and an easier life which inevitably afflict the poor. The finest police force in Great Britain labours hard, night and day, to protect life and property, and to deter from the commission of crime. Crime, lacking the recommendation of character, becomes hereditary, and there sullenly exists in the midst of society a population impure in body and mind. Crime and criminals are unnoticed until the offenders are detected.
