In 1796, the London magistrate Patrick Colquhoun[REF] observed that "[i]t rarely happens that thieves go upon the highway, or commit burglaries, until the money they have previously acquired is exhausted," and that "..without a safe and ready market he [the thief] is undone."
Sutton's 1998 stolen goods Handling Report includes findings from the nationally representative British Crime Survey (1994).