PART II: PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT
xiv Contents
- 1 INTRODUCTION: THE CRIME PROBLEM List of Abbreviations xviii
- Themes
- The City of London and criminal administration
- Patterns of prosecution
- The meaning of crime
- The problem of women
- Conclusion
- PROCESS OF PROSECUTION 2 THE CITY MAGISTRATES AND THE
- Police and policing before the Fieldings
- Policing the City
- London magistrates and the prosecution of crime
- The Guildhall magistrates’ court
- 3 CONSTABLES AND OTHER OFFICERS
- The City constables
- Authority and work
- Appointment and character
- Deputy constables
- Repeated and active service
- City marshals
- Beadles
- 4 POLICING THE NIGHT STREETS
- The problem of the night
- The making of a paid night watch
- ‘A few weak and feeble men’: how effective were watchmen?
- Street lighting
- THIEF-TAKERS, 1690–1720 5 DETECTION AND PROSECUTION:
- Thief-takers and constables in the 1690 s
- Thief-takers and receivers, 1700‒1720
- SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 6 THE OLD BAILEY IN THE LATE
- Trial procedure
- Jurors and jury practice
- Penal ideas and practices before
- Punishment in practice, 1660‒1689
- PUNISHMENT IN LONDON, 1690–1713 7 THE REVOLUTION, CRIME, AND
- Parliament and the criminal law: ideas and experiments
- The Old Bailey, 1690‒1713
- The cabinet and the management of death at Tyburn
- Pardons and the penal crisis
- 8 CRIME AND THE STATE, 1714–1750
- Crime and the Hanoverian succession
- The policy of massive rewards
- The state and prosecution
- Rewards and thief-taking, 1730‒1750
- Policing and prosecution at mid-century
- 9 WILLIAM THOMSON AND TRANSPORTATION
- Thomson as recorder of London
- The Transportation Acts
- Thomson and the new penal order
- Tyburn: the uses of capital punishment
- 10 CONCLUSION
- Bibliography of Manuscript Sources
- Index