Research Catalog

Title

Policing and punishment in London 1660-1750 : urban crime and the limits of terror / J.M. Beattie.

Author

Beattie, J. M.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xix, 491 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

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. The City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment--particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labor--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.

Subject

• 1600-1799
• Geschichte 1660-1750
• Law enforcement > England > London > History > 17th century
• Law enforcement > England > London > History > 18th century
• Crime > England > London > History > 17th century
• Crime > England > London > History > 18th century
• Punishment > England > London > History > 17th century
• Punishment > England > London > History > 18th century
• Criminal justice, Administration of > England > London > History > 17th century
• Criminal justice, Administration of > England > London > History > 18th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0198208677 (acid-free paper)
• 019925723X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001275195

OCLC

• 46694877
• SCSB-9979293

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library