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 28 November 2002
- ISBN 9780199257232
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 233x157x27 mm
- Weight 801 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8pp halftone plates, 1 map, 1 figure and numerous tables 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.
A pioneering work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Crime Problem
PART I: 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
PART II: 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
Index
