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A radio DJ in Birmingham was recently suspended after staging a mock burglary at the home of the station's program director.
The inmate was doing time for a burglary conviction.
As late as 1816 George Vaughan, and others associated with him, were convicted at the Middlesex Sessions of conspiring to induce three brothers named Hurley, and a lad named Wood, only thirteen years of age, to commit a burglary at Hoxton, and by having them convicted of the fact, to procure for themselves the rewards given by Parliament for the conviction of housebreakers.
" There is no doubt that more than one of the Bow Street policemen were actually in league with the depredators they were paid to catch, though they were generally too alert to be found out; but the confidence of the public in their thief-takers received a rude shock when Vaughan, of the Horse Patrol, was proved to have arranged a burglary for the sake of the reward that would have come to him on the conviction of the felons.
[161] In the parish of Kensington alone there were sixteen successful, and three unsuccessful, attempts at burglary in six weeks, and John Vickery, an experienced Bow Street officer, calculated that in one month property to the value of £15,000 was stolen in the City of London, without one of the guilty parties being either known or apprehended.
The suspicious circumstances, however, resolving themselves, on investigation, into the one fact, that they had been discovered sleeping under a haystack; which, although a great crime, is only punishable by imprisonment, and is, in the merciful eye of the English law, and its comprehensive love of all the King's subjects, held to be no satisfactory proof, in the absence of all other evidence, that the sleeper, or sleepers, have committed burglary accompanied with violence, and have therefore rendered themselves liable to the punishment of death; Messrs.
So, we decriminalized virtually all minor offenses, we refused to confront young persons meaningfully for minor offenses--in New York City even burglary was for all practical purposes decriminalized (police didn't even bother investigating it)--and to use Moynihan's phrase, we "defined deviance down.
New York, the paper reports, now has a lower burglary rate than London.
(Never mind that the recidivism rate for child molesting is less than half the reported burglary rate and lower than that of many major felonies.
Plus, there is something uncomfortable about male admissions of inadequacy, it's like pleading guilty to a burglary so you won't get nailed for a murder.
The H-bomb-headed domestic policy maven turned criminal was convicted and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate cover-up and the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Each crime has its own particular name, so the inmate in for screwing burglary and the one in for hoisting shoplifting, can be distinguished from the blagger robber.
An indictment for burglary which charges that [75] the defendant broke into a dwelling-house and stole certain property, is just as good as one which alleges that he broke in with intent to steal.
For if burglary were dealt with only on the footing of an attempt, the whole crime would have to be complete at the moment of breaking into the house.
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