Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
The defendants brought to trial at the Old Bailey for theft were likely to have stolen goods with a reasonably large value; they ...
charged as offences—were also reflected in the pattern of prosecutions, if only via their influence on the decisions made by vic ...
London every year in the early eighteenth century, many of them young men in their teenage and young adult years coming to serve ...
accompanied by violence at home, as the number of reported robberies and other property crimes rose alarmingly. The level of pro ...
were hammer struck, rather than milled, and were unequal in weight, round- ness, and thickness.^115 The clippings thus easily ob ...
system did something to protect English trade. Lower prices and the greater availability of work than in the 1690 s seem likely ...
Disbandment had been recognized as a socially disruptive and dangerous process at least since the mid-sixteenth century, particu ...
Their credit note could be sold, but only at 40 per cent discount. Many workers also lost their jobs in the dockyards near Londo ...
than at the end of William’s war. But that generally amounted to very little, and they found themselves discharged with the same ...
compters in Wood Street and The Poultry—raised issues about both security and the threat to the health of the City. Such overcro ...
for property offences rose steadily and when large numbers of convicted of- fenders were confined in Newgate for longer periods ...
by those concerns, a circumstance that was to have considerable consequences for the identification of problems that demanded at ...
what was by the late seventeenth century a well-established pattern. For the most part they were drawn from the upper ranks of t ...
tankards provided too great a temptation to customers, and that this temptation should be removed.^148 Presentments in 1695 urge ...
another grand jury said in 1694 , the problem (though they did not quite put it this way) was that there was a steady migration ...
set good examples, and that prisoners be provided with good books for their reformation and instruction.^157 More than half the ...
youth’.^161 Similarly, in several presentments, the lord mayor and Court of Aldermen were urged to prohibit ‘public stage plays’ ...
eradicated, and prostitution, vagrancy, and begging were no longer tolerated in the streets of the capital. Nothing makes this p ...
Thus beggary and Vice will decay [they predicted], and Industry and Virtue florish... and all the useless and Idle hands being w ...
immorality. Such widely shared notions were rehearsed most commonly in this period in the accounts of the lives of those offende ...
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