Criminal Justice, England, Criminology, European, Law Enforcement, Europe, Political Science, London, History, 17th century, 18th century, Louis A. Knafla, UK crime and punishment, Crime and punishment, 1600-1750 

"Examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the city of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called "age of reform." The policing institutions of the city were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. The City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment--particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labor--that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment." - Voila 

Contents:
1. Introduction: The Crime Problem -- Themes -- The city of London and criminal administration -- Patterns of prosecution -- The problem of women -- Conclusion -- 2. The City Magistrates and the Process of Prosecution -- 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 at night -- The making of a paid night watch -- 'A few weak and feeble men': how effective were watchmen? -- Street lighting -- 5. Detection and Prosecution: Thief-takers, 1690-1720 -- Thief-takers and constables in the 1690s -- Thief-takers and receivers, 1700-1720 -- 6. The Old Bailey in the Late Seventeenth century -- Trial procedure -- Jurors and jury practice -- Penal ideas and practices before 1660 -- Punishment in practice, 1660-1689 -- 7. The Revolution, Crime, and Punishment in London, 1690-1713 -- 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.  

Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-482) and index.
Item has been generously donated by Louis A. Knafla.