Night Raiders

Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the ''night-time'' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars'' victims were likely to be in the bedroom, asleep and unawares, when the intruder crept in, prowling near them in the darkne...