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

412 Crime and the State constables—Alexander Forfar, William Atley, and William Boomer—and an- other eleven whose presence on ot ...

Crime and the State 413 dynamics of these groups and their relationship to each other is still rather vague—just as indeed much ...

414 Crime and the State one-hundred pound reward—may thus have encouraged the ‘thief-making’ conspiracies that resulted in a maj ...

Crime and the State 415 able to point to several examples of young men being drawn into committing robberies for which they were ...

416 Crime and the State when men are referred to apparently quite neutrally as ‘Mr. So-and-So, the thief-taker’.^148 Or when one ...

Crime and the State 417 tipped off Unwin that Read was in his house. He addressed the defendant and then the court, as though in ...

418 Crime and the State thief-takers.^156 But the concentration of magisterial authority in few hands at a time when anxieties a ...

Crime and the State 419 There is no reason to think that the response in the City, and in particular the attitudes expressed by ...

420 Crime and the State fundamental change that was gradually coming over the preliminary hearing itself, turning it into more o ...

Crime and the State 421 Elizabethan laws that attempted to prevent corruption by informers. Even more damaging for society, he a ...

422 Crime and the State men employed at Bow Street were ‘real and useful thieftakers’.^167 They had been drawn originally from t ...

be given their place. They were an important element in the array of options for dealing with crime and social disorder in the e ...

(^1) For Thomson’s career, see Edward Foss, A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, 1066 – 1870 ( 1870 ), 654 – 5 ; ...

strong supporter of the new regime. It seems likely that it was with the support ofTownshend and Walpole, two of the king’s lead ...

Lights to be hung out in these Courts or places tho no thorough fares.. .’.^7 That commitment to construct defences against crim ...

Thomson’s policy initiatives and his attitudes and ideas allow us to explore some of the major themes of the period after 1714 i ...

punishment the courts could impose on clergied offenders, but also backed the system with sufficient resources to make it work. ...

and the authorities in the City. For the City, the new policy provided a way of dealing with convicted property offenders, petty ...

sitting lord mayor.^12 Thomson chaired the committee that sat on the bill, carried it to the House of Lords when it passed the C ...

streets of London and Westminster (and other cities) to be regarded as ‘high- ways’ within the meaning of the 1692 reward statut ...