Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
in the decade in the flush of enthusiasm that some men shared for the possibil- ities that transportation offered, much more amb ...
better trial and conviction of such persons as shall be indicted for petty treason, murder, and felony’.^86 This was likely to h ...
from carrying convicts to the colonies and selling them into a form of servitude for the term of their sentences. Indeed, it was ...
of convicts languishing in London gaols in order to get them transported to the West Indies.^95 But a government increasingly be ...
Business as usual in fact meant little business at all. It had become abundantly clear that to remove every offender pardoned by ...
were not necessarily intended as benevolent gestures. Indeed, since it was likely that a woman convicted of non-clergyable theft ...
the condemned were returned to Newgate, some to await the deadly summons to be taken on the 3 -mile journey to Tyburn,^101 the r ...
larceny—simple theft—accounted for a large number of executions, in part be- cause of the number of women condemned for an offen ...
data suggest that about sixty men and women from the City were executed in the sessions sampled in the three decades after 1660 ...
between the threat of hanging and the government’s anxiety about the level of crowd disturbances on the streets of the capital. ...
them charged against women who had limited access to clergy and yet whose of- fences were such that they were not likely to be h ...
rather than just mumble their way through the familiar ‘neck-verse’ in a cha- rade that must so often have served as the reading ...
making the point (unless he was, understandably, confused by the procedure) that the jury—his ‘country’—had wanted to acquit him ...
value of ten pence for which he was sentenced to be whipped rather than branded.^114 On the other hand, juries also clearly beli ...
In the case of fifteen men and twenty-seven women in our Sample who had been found guilty of petty larceny after being charged w ...
in the country—that is, how few charges of petty larceny were sent on to the court by either London or Middlesex magistrates. Do ...
punishment was coming into question but rather that its effects in the City were perhaps raising doubts about the way it had hit ...
transportation—suggests that there was a widespread conviction that a more ef- fective alternative to hanging was required for p ...
work-discipline to be imposed on minor offenders who had been convicted by juries. A clause in the statute of 1623 that extended ...
exercised over the lives of the poor by the provision of workhouses for the needy, and by sumptuary laws and ‘strict Inspection ...
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