A Certain Share of Low Cunning : A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839

ISBN-13: 9780415627511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str.

David J. Cox

Opis

This text provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of both qualitative and quantitative research data, this book provides a fresh insight into their history.

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Recenzje

'Cox's approach is so methodical and finely referenced that the reader is persuaded by his argument that the Runners have not, until now, had their due. [...] This book is long overdue, especially as the Runners have appeared in a number of recent works of fiction as Georgian quasi-James Bond characters. This revisionist account ensures that they will be better understood and may cease to be defined as hopeless failures in the crime-infested world we know through the art of contemporary caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray. They were, as Cox admirably shows, heroes of their time.' – Stephen Wade, University of Hull and the University of Oxford,

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Revealing an 'Eleusinian Mystery'  2. 'Men of Known and Approved Fidelity': The Development of the Bow Street System  3. 'If the Gentleman Writes, the Gentleman Pays': The Employers of Principal Officers  4. 'Contending with Desperate Characters': The Types of Crimes Investigated by Principal Officers  5. 'Police Officers for the Country at Large': The Nationwide Role of the Principal Officers, 6. 'Domiciliary Visits, Spies, and all the rest of Fouche's Contrivances': Six Case Studies of Provincial Investigations by Principal Officers  7. 'More Expert in Tracing and Detecting Crime': The Post-1829 Situation  8. 'Rescuing from an Historical Cul-de-sac': The Legacy of the Bow Street Principal Officers.  References