Similarly as elsewhere in Europe, robbers on Slovene territory were ravaging across the countryside, attacking boroughs and smaller towns. The authorities issued a series of laws, regulations and measures against them; however all was inefficient. Circumstances changed in the middle of the 19th century. The authorities introduced gendarmerie that acted against the robbers. The supply of the poor partly improved, while on the other hand, a coercive workshop was started in Ljubljana for the captured loiterers, rovers and for work capable beggars. All those novelties have destroyed the robbers’ organization; separate robbers still remained of course. In popular recollection, robbers remained as something negative.