Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
How effectively the City constabulary carried out this work is difficult to judge. Contemporary testimony—stray complaints about ...
victim of a serious offence to take the person accused before a justice. To this end, the constable wielded authority not availa ...
oversight and accountability were not exercised effectively at any level, they had a good deal of discretion as to how and when ...
constables to enforce the law more conscientiously—especially when they themselves were under pressure from grand juries or refo ...
trading on Sundays, to search out the immoral, to deal with vagrants and beg- gars, to report unlicensed drinking places, to sen ...
Restoration.^33 In 1682 the council passed an act for the regulation of hackney coaches that again sought to limit their number, ...
necessary. In 1692 and the following few years they brought dozens of indict- ments against the drivers of hackney coaches (incl ...
ordinary citizens.) But a handful of special appointments could not diminish the underlying problems created by the pressures fo ...
when anxieties were running high about an increase of vice and immorality, and about the temptations that might keep servants an ...
same place when the Pretender’s ‘Declaration’ was burned in public following the exposure of the Jacobite plot in 1722.^47 Large ...
constables and other officers turned out for such duty was increased signifi- cantly across the century. After 1750 it was commo ...
second half of the nineteenth century (well after the establishment of the new- model police forces in the metropolis by Sir Rob ...
accused and perhaps for stolen property, during which he might if necessary use force to break into a house to secure the accuse ...
her, got a warrant, and accompanied a constable who searched her new lodg- ings, found the goods, and took her into custody; a w ...
(to the extent the records make it possible) who they were and how they were appointed over the late seventeenth century and fir ...
At the ward level, there was further possibility of escape, for fines could also be paid there, and an alternative candidate ele ...
the job entirely to elderly and infirm men who could find no other work. This has never, however, been investigated. In our exam ...
It ranked second in the proportion of its citizens who paid more than a basic rate of tax in 1692 , for example: fully 70 per ce ...
small shopkeepers, tradesmen, and men providing a variety of other services, such as barbers and musicians, all assessed at the ...
be expected, not as many constables elected in the larger wards were so securely in the middling-to-wealthy ranks of the citizen ...
«
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
»
Free download pdf