Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
more visible and so much more alarming was another characteristic of pros- ecuted offences in the metropolis revealed by the pat ...
What was particularly alarming, he went on to argue, was the violence that such men threatened against their victims, the terror ...
Violent robbery was thought to be particularly common in the streets of the capital, where targets were plentiful and escape rel ...
sense of panic than were robbery, burglary, and housebreaking. Picking pockets was regarded as more of a petty offence by the la ...
convicted from the consequences of a felony conviction. Most men and women granted clergy were immediately discharged from the c ...
sessions of the peace because of the structural peculiarities of the court system in the metropolis, under which the sessions of ...
as the number of property offences increased sharply through Elizabeth’s reign and well into the seventeenth century. It may als ...
warrant under which they committed many of those charged with minor property offences to the Bridewell (in the City) and to the ...
sentences imposed on new inmates committed not only by the Lord Mayor but all the London magistrates are recorded.^68 We will de ...
So too were: Suella Bellington, who confessed before Sir Edward Clarke, a City magistrate, to stealing pewter pots belonging to ...
vagrants and beggars received into the workhouse in its early years were dozens of people like Ann Gainsford, aged 10 years, Joh ...
minor thefts made up a considerable proportion of the cases to be dealt with at both the quarter sessions and the assizes, the j ...
involved. In a significant number of cases in the lord mayor’s Charge Book, the accused appears to have been the servant or appr ...
other offenders prosecuted in London were simply sent to Bridewell rather than to trial. It has been suggested, too, that during ...
London—a picture not, of course, of the crime committed, but of the crime prosecuted, of the offences that helped to shape the p ...
seems reasonable to speculate, given that this was George Jeffreys’s first session as recorder ofLondon after his election on th ...
into the street and stopped them, took them into a neighbour’s shop and ‘searching her did find about her under her [ petticoat? ...
there was such anxiety about crime in London in general and about shoplifting in particular by the last years of the century tha ...
clothes.^99 Complaints were common about servants who gave false references, stayed only a few days, and then left with valuable ...
Receivers had long been blamed for the levels of property crime in London: it was an old saying that without receivers there wou ...
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