How Criminals Are Made And Prevented a Retrospect of Forty Years
How Criminals Are Made And Prevented a Retrospect of Forty Years
J W John William Horsley
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Found that one out of every eleven weights or measures on stalls and barrows was incorrect, and one in twenty- five in shops. Two hundred and seventy-seven proceedings resulted in 251 convictions, and one must regret that fines only amounted to ^264 a quite inadequate and undeterrent sum when it is considered how long the dishonest gain on every transaction may have been made before detection. Coal-merchants were as jealous of the Homeric 76 Commercial Morality Tending to Crime epithet of " res...pectable " as publicans, but yet only by the action of the L. C. C. Were some of them made honest, and one who is, and not one who has been made, honest, is alone worthy of respect. When the crusade was begun in 1890 injustice and robbery was punished in 444 discovered cases : next year, convictions dropped to 205 ; next year to 162 ; next to 82. In one single transaction four distinct dishonest profits were made in addition to that which was lawful, by (i) the coals being wetted and so made heavier, (2) the weights being false, (3) the sacks not being properly filled, and (4) an empty sack or two being taken in the waggon to be counted as having been emptied !
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