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  CUST 49/4406; this newspaper report from 1954 describes the case of two seamen smuggling in cannabis.
 
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Think about: drug smuggling today is a huge business. What was the scale of the crime earlier in the century? Work out the details of what happened:
how many people on each side?
What time of day or night?
How did the seamen try to dispose of their goods?
Where?

 
Worksheet Instructions
  Put some of the examples you have found in this Case-Study of a key factor for change affecting crime in the 20th century in your Gallery Worksheet.
 
  CUST 49/4406; newspaper report from 1954