Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
asked by the ordinary ‘if he was not guilty of Sabbath-breaking’. He acknow- ledged that he was; and that ‘it was his Original s ...
The ordinary sold his account of the condemned to an audience that almost certainly made as natural a connection as he did betwe ...
The same moral was even more directly pointed in Hogarth’s graphic tale of the contrasting fates of two apprentices in Industry ...
The problem of women The ordinary’s account of the immoral lives and shameful deaths of the Tyburn hanged, the grand jurors’ pre ...
conscience. It puts [men] upon stealing to satisfy their lusts.’^188 And George Delacore, who had given the ordinary an account ...
anxiety about the behaviour of women in London and dissatisfaction with the way the authorities and the courts dealt with crime ...
If one could add the defendants who were every year diverted to the house of correction and away from jury trial in the reigns o ...
offences with capital punishment. We will return in a later chapter to parlia- mentary responses to what were thought to be the ...
68 Introduction: The Crime Problem 1670 1675 1680 1685 1690 1695 1 700 1705 1710 1715 1720 1725 1730 1735 1740 1745 1750 MEN WOM ...
Poor Law, charity, the support of friends and relatives, begging, and prostitution were others when starvation threatened. But m ...
demographic realities and warfare ensured that there were many widows with families to support), or wives who had been deserted ...
frequency with which women were brought before the courts suggests too that women found themselves in difficulties in London muc ...
offences. But the level of cases that came before the eight annual sessions of the Old Bailey made London very different from ev ...
reforming those convicted of such offences and at deterring others. These general concerns—prosecution and policing, on the one ...
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CHAPTER TWO The City Magistrates and the Process ofProsecution Police and policing before the Fieldings Unlike France, which by ...
forward for solution arose most insistently in urban environments, and the no- tion of ‘police’ as civil administration came to ...
that interest also extended ‘to the protection of the public against depredation and fraud—and to the prevention of crimes’.^7 A ...
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