Mugging was a newly defined crime in early 1970s Britain

Evidence

12 The pamphlet—by the Paul, Jimmy and Mustafa Support Group, 20 Years (Handsworth, UK: Action Centre, 1973)—was produced in advance of the trial of three young men from Handsworth in Birmingham who had been accused of the newly defined crime of “mugging.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 782

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: What precisely made ‘mugging’ a new legal category in Britain, and what social conditions produced it as a defined crime?

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