This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being laid.

Crime And The Courts In England 1660-1800

Politics & Social Sciences

Beattie, J.M.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press M.D.

This pioneering study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the century after the Restoration. 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.

Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror

History

Europe

Oxford University Press

This pioneering study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the century after the Restoration. 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.

Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror

This is the first scholarly study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London. They were developed over the following decades by his half-brother, John Fielding, into what became a well-known and stable group of officers who acquired skill and expertise in investigating crime, tracking and arresting offenders, and in presenting evidence at the Old Bailey, the main criminal court in London. They were, Beattie argues, detectives in all but name. Fielding also created a magistrates' court that was open to the public for the first time, at stated times every day. A second, intimately-related theme in the book concerns attitudes and ideas about the policing of London more broadly, particularly from the 1780s, when the detective and prosecutorial work of the runners came to be increasingly opposed by arguments in favour of the prevention of crime by surveillance and other means. The last three chapters of the book continue to follow the runners' work, but at the same time are concerned with discussions of the larger structure of policing in London - in parliament, in the Home Office, and in the press. These discussions were to intensify after 1815, in the face of a sharp increase in criminal prosecutions. They led - in a far from straightforward way - to a fundamental reconstitution of the basis of policing in the capital by Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police act of 1829. The runners were not immediately affected by the creation of the New Police, but indirectly it led to their disbandment a decade later.

The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840

This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being laid.

Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800

Princeton University Press

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Crime And The Courts In England 1660-1800

Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror

Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror

The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840

The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840

Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800

Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800

Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (ACLS History E-Book Project Reprint)