Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie

392 Crime and the State among the expenses that the administration would defray. Efforts to improve the effectiveness of prosecu ...

Crime and the State 393 The engagement of solicitors in ordinary criminal cases almost certainly re- mained unusual in this peri ...

394 Crime and the State prepared by solicitors, especially those conducted by lawyers arguing from well- prepared briefs, confro ...

Crime and the State 395 the prosecution of crime in this period—not least the very large rewards offered through the 1720 s and ...

396 Crime and the State to victims of offences about the prosecution system in London and to save them from ‘the oppressive and ...

Crime and the State 397 the order in which they would testify, and to give them instructions as to how to behave in court. On su ...

398 Crime and the State more likely the work of thief-takers, who, as we have seen, engaged in a variety of ways of profiting fr ...

Crime and the State 399 previous City sessions. Any complaint they made—particularly one as funda- mental as this—was likely to ...

400 Crime and the State It is a revealing comment on grand jury practice that they made general charges in their presentment and ...

Crime and the State 401 There was clearly a sense by the early 1730 s among those most closely in- volved in the administration ...

402 Crime and the State award needed to be identified. The recipients were, however, named in the gaol books in Middlesex for a ...

Crime and the State 403 ( 4 per cent) of those named as having received part of a reward between 1730 and 1733 were women, of wh ...

404 Crime and the State was typical in being named with about a dozen others in the reward payments in December 1730 for having ...

Crime and the State 405 the largest rewards for thief-takers in 1730 – 3 have every appearance ofbeing the prosecutions carried ...

406 Crime and the State deserved any part of the proclamation reward. No danger, no pay, was Thom- son’s simple solution to the ...

Crime and the State 407 reported that at the end of September Edward Jones, the City marshal, return- ing from a meeting with Co ...

408 Crime and the State warrants that would enable them more easily to arrest those who could be pun- ished as rogues and vagabo ...

Crime and the State 409 treasury’s obligations during the war, a time of heavy expenditure. But (since it was never again to be ...

410 Crime and the State It is very likely that concerns of this kind explain the change in the proclama- tion reward policy impl ...

Crime and the State 411 The printed accounts of their trials give no hints as to how they had been ar- rested, and suggest that, ...