Convicts and ex-convicts regarded as a social class.
the felonry have become rampant and insolent
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It degraded the whole of colonial society, both felonry and free.
They displayed a dangerous and disgraceful spirit of favouritism for the felonry.
It was almost a game the Criminal Investigation Department played with the felonry, with both parties knowing where, sooner or later, the spotlight of police attention would fall.
Britain's colonial policy was shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori.
Historians paid considerable attention to the circumstances that created this unwanted felonry.