Carol’s Reviews > The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes > Status Update
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Not until 1842 was there a detective bureau — the ancestor of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) still exists in England - to decipher clues and investigate the crimes discovered or interrupted by uniformed officers.…In 1905 a woman was hired in a position that seems to have merged truant officer, prison warder, and counselor. Not until 1918 did the London police hire the first women as officers.
— Jan 26, 2026 04:32PM
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What did this favoured child of fortune lack that she could be reached by such a plea, when her whole being revolted from the nature of the task he offered her? …[T]he consent he had thought dependent upon sympathetic interest could be reached much more readily by the promise of large emolument, —and he owned to a feeling of secret disappointment even while he recognized the value of the discovery.
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”I—I’m not used to sights like this,” stammered the scrub-woman, stumbling awkwardly to her feet, and looking as if her few remaining wits had followed the rest on an endless vacation.
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And if people were condemned for their motives, would there be enough hangmen in the world?
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[Catherine Louisa] Pirkis’s was the era of criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who argued that criminal inclinations resulted from hereditary atavism that was literally visible in features such as large chins and fleshy lips; and of sexologist Havelock Ellis, who insisted that female criminals exhibit a degenerate abundance of body hair and other masculine traits, as well as “pathological” sex organs.
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