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EMIGBATION AS A PBETEKTIVJE AGENCY. 291
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convicts of the kingdom are women , but tliat is a sfo . aU . ow calculation . Women are more often the accomplices of crime , its aiders and
abettors , than its actual perpetrators . Tlien also they are the victims of power and crimes over of , and the and above law the , seducer while their inflicting own s to live crimes s of the , crime which deadliest they do not wounds become come on mothers within society the of ;
criminals . It is well known how brief is the , unhappy career which _, our female criminals run . How they are recruited it is not hard to
guess , in a country where there are fifty thousand women working for less than sixpence a day , and a hundred thousand for less
than An a ar shilling of ten _. thousand able-bodied women pass through our my
workhouses in a single year . Liverpool alone supplies upwards of two thousand . Many of these women are already criminal , while
most of them are miserable specimens of humanity . The Emigration Commissioners could not find acceptance for them in our
colonies ; thus , for want of a better industrial system , a want beg a inning noble chance to be recognised was lostwhich as a it necessit is to be y in hoped workhouse will yet management be redeemed , ,
of cutting off a fruitful , source , of crime , and enabling hundreds of women to emigrate without the brand of convicted felon upon them ,
to destroy their chance and hope of a better life wherever they go . Caroline Chisholm performed a noble reformatory work when she led
out hundreds of destitute women , for it is such personal leadership that our destitute class are so much in need of , to prevent their falling
into crime . The government emigration has been steadily accomof plishing respectable no mean character amount and of good that , emi in sending gration out is now female , by emi _uioans grants of
, unceasing efforts at improvement , " almost all that could be desired . A matron accompanies each band of single women sent out by the
Commission , and it is contemplated to secure the permanent services of such matrons as have proved themselves capable of their arduous
task , that a higher class of persons and a growing efficiency may be gradually attained for this important office .
But is there no hope for the convicted felon ? Very little indeed with us . The industrious and honest of his own class shrink from
contact with him . Few households will receive into their most menial offices a female convict , however well assured of her
repentance and desire to commence a life of honest labor . We can hardly utter in sinceritthe " and sin no more" of our now happily , to
y go some extent , reformatory prisons , when we thrust forth a convictespecially a woman—into the streets , knowing that' no door save
that of the house of infamy will open to receive her . The " Prisoners' Aid Society" might , were the means at its disposal , occupy
they comp have letely emp this loyed reformatory in _disiDOsing field . of Emi the gration prisoners is best one , both results of the male means It and is
female , whom they have assisted , and with the . doubtful whether much publicity concerning the working of such .
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Emigbation As A Pbetektivje Agency. 291
EMIGBATION AS A _PBETEKTIVJE AGENCY . 291
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/3/
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