It is hard to imagine what the gloomy social scientist would have made of the fact that, 160 years later, London's police would be recording 2,500 crimes per day.Most striking is the rise of mugging.
That reduces the chances of mugging.
Within a given country, people who have been victims of the same kind of crime (here, a burglary) tend to be more vengeful, but not if they have been victims of a different crime, like mugging.
More than 80% of this is financed by crime, mainly mugging, burglary, robbery, shoplifting and car theft.
High street crime – robbery, mugging and vandalism – is a much riskier enterprise today because of the millions of closed-circuit televisions monitoring our every move.
In my part of town, people are preoccupied with a council decision to concentrate resources on parking infringements and ignore such lesser crimes as stabbing, mugging, burglary and marauding teenagers smashing up the neighbourhood.
A concept can be named by simple terms that belong to the open classes of words nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs (e.g., "crime", "death", "to reside"), or by expressions composed of more than one term, whether or not linked by closed classes of words prepositions and conjunctions (e.g. "math test", "street mugging", "crime of passion").
After 19 years of crime-free living in London, I was finally the victim of a mugging.
A video recounting Mr. Bo's "smash black" crackdown on organized crime featured mug shots of gangsters emblazoned on tombstones.
The crime of different countries is an unpleasant extra; after the mugging, close to her rented apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, she said she was simply relieved that only her face had been bruised.
