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Bibliography: Policing

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General

  • J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986).
  • J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
  • C. Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History (Harlow, Essex, 1991).
  • M. Gaskill, The displacement of Providence: Policing and Prosecution in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England, Continuity and Change, 11 (1996), pp. 341–74.
  • D. Hay and F. Snyder, Using the Criminal Law, 1750-1850: Policing, Prosecution and the State, in Policing and Prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850, ed. by D. Hay and F. Snyder (Oxford, 1989).
  • Jennine Hurl-Eamon, The Westminister Imposters: Impersonating Law Enforcement in Early Eighteenth-Century London, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38:3 (2005), pp. 461–83.
  • Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820 (Oxford, 2000).
  • Norma Landau, The Trading Justice's Trade, in Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830, ed. by Norma Landau (Cambridge, 2002).
  • Karen A. Macfarlane, The Jewish Policemen of Eighteenth-Century London, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 10 (2011), pp. 223-244.
  • Ruth Paley, An Imperfect, Inadequate and Wretched System? Policing London before Peel, Criminal Justice History, 10 (1989), pp. 95–130.
  • Ruth Paley (ed.), Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris (London Record Society vol. 28, 1991).
  • D. Philips, 'A New Engine of Power and Authority': The Institutionalization of Law Enforcement in England, 1780-1830, in Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500, ed. by V. A. C. Gatrell, Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker (London, 1980).
  • David Philips, Good Men to Associate and Bad Men to Conspire: Assocations for the Prosecution of Felons in England, 1760-1860, in Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850, ed. by D. Hay and F. Snyder (Oxford, 1989).
  • D. Rumbelow, I Spy Blue: The Police and Crime in the City of London from Elizabeth to Victoria (London, 1971).
  • A. Schubert, Private Initiatives in Law Enforcement: Associations for the Prosecution of Felons, 1744-1856, in Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. by V. Bailey (London, 1981).
  • Robert Shoemaker, The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 2004).
  • John Styles, Print and Policing: Crime Advertising in Eighteenth-Century Provincial England, in Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850, ed. by D. Hay and F. Snyder (Oxford, 1989).

The Role of Private Individuals

  • M. Gaskill, The displacement of Providence: Policing and Prosecution in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England, Continuity and Change, 11 (1996), pp. 341–74.
  • Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820 (Oxford, 2000).
  • David Philips, Good Men to Associate and Bad Men to Conspire: Assocations for the Prosecution of Felons in England, 1760-1860, in Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850, ed. by D. Hay and F. Snyder (Oxford, 1989).
  • A. Schubert, Private Initiatives in Law Enforcement: Associations for the Prosecution of Felons, 1744-1856, in Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. by V. Bailey (London, 1981).
  • John Styles, Print and Policing: Crime Advertising in Eighteenth-Century Provincial England, in Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850, ed. by D. Hay and F. Snyder (Oxford, 1989).

Constables and the Night Watch

  • J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
  • Andrew T. Harris, Policing and Public Order in the City of London, 1784-1815, London Journal, 28 (2003), pp. 1–20.
  • Andrew T. Harris, Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authority in London, 1780-1840 (Columbus, Ohio, 2004).
  • Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 (London, 1999).
  • Elaine Reynolds, Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830 (London, 1998).

Thief Takers

  • J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001).
  • Gerald Howson, Thief-Taker General: The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Wild (London, 1970).
  • Lucy Moore, The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, and Jack Sheppard, House-Breaker (London, 1997).
  • Ruth Paley, Thief-takers in London in the Age of the McDaniel Gang, c. 1745-1754, in Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850, ed. by D. Hay and F. Snyder (Oxford, 1989).
  • Tim Wales, Thief-takers and Their Clients in Later Stuart London, in Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London, ed. by P. Griffiths and M. S. R. Jenner (Manchester, 2000).

The Bow Street Runners

  • A. Babington, A House in Bow Street: Crime and the Magistracy in London, 1740-1881 (London, 1969).
  • Anthony Babington, A House in Bow Street (London, 1969).
  • Martin Battestin, C. Battestin and Ruthe R. Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life (London and New York, 1989).
  • Henry Goddard, Patrick Pringle (ed.), Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (London, 1956).
  • Henry Goddard and Patrick Pringle, Memoirs of a Bow Street runner, introduction by Patrick Pringle (London, 1956).
  • John Styles, Sir John Fielding and the Problem of Criminal Investigation in Eighteenth-Century England, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., 33 (1983), pp. 127–49.

The Metropolitan Police, 1829

  • C. Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History (Harlow, Essex, 1991).
  • Robert M Morris, "Crime does not pay" : thinking again about detectives in the first century of the Metropolitan Police, in Police detectives in history, 1750-1950, ed. by Haia Shpayer-Makov and Clive Emsley (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 79-102.
  • S. H. Palmer, Police and Protest in England and Ireland, 1780-1850 (Cambridge, 1988).
  • Stefan Petrow, Policing morals : the Metropolitan police and the Home Office, 1870-1914 (Oxford, 1994).
  • D. Rumbelow, I Spy Blue: The Police and Crime in the City of London from Elizabeth to Victoria (London, 1971).
  • Haia Shpayer-Makov, The making of a policeman : a social history of a labour force in metropolitan London, 1829-1914 (Aldershot, 2001).
  • Phillip Thurmond Smith, Policing Victorian London : political policing, public order and the London Metropolitan Police. (Westport (CT), 1985).
  • J. Styles, The Emergence of the Police: Explaining Police Reform in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England, British Journal of Criminology, 27 (1987).