维多利亚时代英国铁路犯罪

Malcolm Clegg | 2023 | ISBN: 1399085816 | English | 160 pages | ePUB | 3 MB

The vast majority of Britain’s railways were built between 1830 and 1900 which happened to coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). By the turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century, over one hundred different railway companies were operating in Britain on more than 22,000 miles of railway track.

Although these new railways brought prosperity to the nation and enabled goods and passengers to be speedily transported the length and breadth of the country for the first time, this remarkable feat of engineering brought with it some unwelcome side-effects, one of which was crime. Wherever crowds of people gather, or unattended goods are being transported, a few unscrupulous individuals and career criminals will usually emerge to ply their trade. Some railway staff members are also unable to resist the temptation of stealing money or goods passing through their hands.

This book gives an insight into the nature and types of crime committed on the railways during the Victorian era, incorporating such offenses as theft, assaults and murder, fraud, obstructing the railways and various other infringements of the law.

Over seventy different cases mentioned in the book are true accounts of events which took place on the railway during the Victorian era, the details of which were obtained as a result of hours of researching British Newspaper Archives of that period. The author hopes that readers will get as much pleasure from analyzing the various cases cited in the book, as he himself derived from researching and writing about them.

英国的大多数铁路是在1830年至1900年间建造的，这恰好与维多利亚女王在位的时间（1837-1901）重合。到十九世纪末二十一世纪初之交时，已经有超过一百家不同的铁路公司运营着覆盖22,000英里的铁路轨道。 尽管这些新铁路为国家带来了繁荣，并首次使得货物和乘客能够以惊人的速度在大半个英国进行运输，但这一令人惊叹的工程成就却伴随着一些不受欢迎的副作用。其中一种就是犯罪行为的出现。无论人群聚集的地方还是无人看管的商品正在被运输的地方，总会有几个不择手段的人或职业罪犯会趁机出没谋生。铁路工作人员中也有许多人无法抗拒通过手中的钱和货物进行盗窃的诱惑。 本书向读者揭示了维多利亚时代在铁路上的犯罪行为的本质及种类，其中包括盗窃、袭击以及谋杀等犯罪，还包括欺诈、阻碍铁路运营以及其他违法行为。 书中共提到70多个案例都是关于那个时代铁路事件的真实记录，这些案件的信息是通过研究那一时期的英国报纸档案所获得的。作者希望读者能够从书中提及的各种案件中同样得到分析的乐趣，就像他自己在研究和写作这些故事时所体验到的一样。

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