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The Invention of Murder Judith Flanders (Harper Press, pounds 9.99)Crime is as much a British obsession as the weather. Each generation yearns for a perceived but imaginary golden age when it was safer to walk the streets. Muggings and football hooliganism, for example, were as much of a problem in Victorian times as they were to become in the second half of the 20th century.
Murder became popularised during Victorian times, the growth of cities sending the murder rate soaring and burgeoning newspapers used crime to help boost circulations after a tax on them was lifted.See the full content of this document
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