Melby, Aaron2021-02-122021-02-122012-03https://hdl.handle.net/2097/41134Aaron Melby, “Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Crime in Wabaunsee Township, Wabaunsee County, Kansas 1858-1921,” Chapman Center Research Collections, accessed November 11, 2020, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/219.This study uses two Justice of the Peace record books to correlate patterns in early Wabaunsee Co., crime rates with major regional and national events. The results of this study show spikes in crime rates following events that put strain on the United States economically and socially. These spikes show economic and social stress in an area that otherwise had relatively low amounts crime.This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). NOTE: Rights status of accompanying images may differ from text.Wabaunsee CountyZeandale TownshipWabaunsee TownshipPanic of 1873Gary LafreeE.R. McCurdyText