Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror

ISBN-13: 9780198208679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 520 str.

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Opis

This pioneering study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the century after the Restoration. The author reveals how and why an alternative means of dealing with crime emerged in the policing of London, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.

Recenzje

Beattie pulls off one of the hardest tricks of all by organizing his book along thematic and chronological lines, ensuring that by 1750 we feel the weight and significance of the developments he identifies ... this is a book with a solid statistical basis, but less concerned with positivist interpretation and more with how contemporaries understood fluctuating levels of indicted crime ... fine, illuminating book.