Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750
Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 July 2001
- ISBN 9780198208679
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 242x163x33 mm
- Weight 864 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp black & white plates, 1 map 0
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Short description:
This pioneering study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the century after the Restoration. Against a background of social and cultural change in the metropolis the author reveals how and why an alternative means of dealing with crime emerged in the policing of London, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.
MoreLong description:
This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. At the same time, the City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment - particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labour - that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment. The book investigates why in the century after 1660 the elements of an alternative means of dealing with crime in urban society were emerging in policing, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.
... rich study ... will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of London's policing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction - The Crime Problem
Policing and Prosecution
The City Magistrates and the Process of Prosecution
Constables and other officers
Policing the Night Streets
Detection and prosecution: thief-takers, 1690-1720
Prosecution and Punishment
The Old Bailey in the Late Seventeenth Century
The Revolution, crime, and punishment in London, 1690-1713
Crime and the State, 1714-1750
William Thomson and transportation
Conclusion
Bibliography of Manuscript Sources
