Thanks to the New York Times for a link to olbaileyonline.org. Patricia Cohen’s August 17th article, As the Gavel Fell: 240 Years at the Old Bailey, provides background information about London’s central criminal court during the 17th through 19th centuries, the digitization of Old Bailey records, subsequent data mining, and the discernment of a shift toward guilty pleas in the early 19th Century. For more information, see With Criminal Intent, a blog for the Datamining with Criminal Intent project , and Clive Emsley, Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, "Crime and Justice - Punishments at the Old Bailey", Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 6.0, 18 August 2011).