The Penny Mobs was a name used by the press for early street gangs in Glasgow, Scotland during the early 1870s. The name derived from the practice of gang members collecting a penny per head to pay fines as an alternative to imprisonment. The gangs formed following Irish immigration during the potato famines and declined after courts stopped offering fines for offenders.
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