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

offenders should be punished. Again, there is no direct evidence that it was Thomson’s idea. But this ‘Index ofIndictments’, as ...

clause in the act was clearly a product of the City’s unhappy experience with the weakness of the sanctions available for the pu ...

so much increase of trouble and care from my inspecting all ye proceedings with regard to the transportation of felons, from ye ...

because Thomson chose to engage in the detailed business of the office. When he complained about the burden he was carrying with ...

few women involved in such offences put their victims under threat of physical harm. More men and women (in roughly equal number ...

We will look in the following section at the way in which men and women convicted of capital offences for all property crimes we ...

discretion of the court: it established that in the case of offenders convicted of an offence for which they ‘shall be entitled ...

right to choose among the various non-capital punishments that had earlier been available: the branding of clergy for grand larc ...

In these two ways—allowing time for enquiries into the circumstances of some of the prisoners and considering petitions for modi ...

They had done so, Thomson himself said, because applications to the Old Bai- ley for reductions of punishments had become so num ...

man who had clear and decisive ideas about the way the act he had constructed ought to be administered. What Thomson did not say ...

to return to offending ; removing certain kinds of offenders from their environ- ments and their companions, he was convinced, w ...

vigorous advocacy of a system supported by treasury money—created a pre- sumption that clergyable offenders would be banished to ...

flogging carried out in the relative privacy of the gaol or house of correction, and when the court intended such a mitigation o ...

transported. It is hardly surprising that Thomson as recorder immediately em- ployed the new powers the legislation allowed. Whi ...

eliminate public whipping. It is possible that the street violence that had marked the years after the accession of George I had ...

1730 , for example, when two men charged with shoplifting but found guilty on the reduced charge of larceny by their juries and ...

fate or be allowed an alternative punishment that would spare their lives continued to depend on the king and his ministers, for ...

within a few years it was left to the recorder to request a place on the agenda whenever his report was ready. That remained the ...

accused. The few rough minutes of these encounters that remain in the State Papers, taken by one of the secretaries of state, re ...