Policing
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General
Beattie, J. M.. Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800. Princeton, 1986.
Notes: chap.2 - policing; chap.3 - killing; chaps.4-5 - theft; chap.5 - gender; chaps.6-7 - judicial procedures; chap.8 trial verdicts; chaps.9-10 - punishment View or add to this citation.
Beattie, J. M.. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
Notes: chap.3-4 - constables; chap.5 - thief-takers; chap.6-7 - judicial procedures, judges and juries, verdicts; chap.6-10 - pardons; chap.9 - transportation View or add to this citation.
Emsley, C.. The English Police: A Political and Social History. Harlow, Essex, 1991.
Hay, D., Snyder, F.. Using the Criminal Law, 1750-1850: Policing, Prosecution and the State. In Hay, D., Snyder, F. (ed), Policing and Prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850. Oxford, 1989.
Hurl-Eamon, Jennine. The Westminister Imposters: Impersonating Law Enforcement in Early Eighteenth-Century London. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 38:3 (2005). pp: 461-83.
Landau, Norma. The Trading Justice's Trade. In Landau, Norma (ed), Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830. Cambridge, 2002.
Paley, Ruth. An Imperfect, Inadequate and Wretched System? Policing London before Peel. Criminal Justice History, 10 (1989). pp: 95-130.
Paley, Ruth (ed). Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris. London Record Society vol. 28, 1991.
Philips, D.. 'A New Engine of Power and Authority': The Institutionalization of Law Enforcement in England, 1780-1830. In Gatrell, V A C, Lenman, Bruce, Parker, Geoffrey (ed), Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500. London, 1980.
Rumbelow, D.. I Spy Blue: The Police and Crime in the City of London from Elizabeth to Victoria. London, 1971.
Shoemaker, Robert. The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England. London, 2004.
Notes: chap.2 - policing; chap.4 - corporal punishment; chap.5 - breaking the peace; chap.6-7 - killing. The definitive work on popular interaction with the criminal justice system in the eighteenth century. View or add to this citation.
The role of private individuals
Gaskill, M.. The displacement of Providence: Policing and Prosecution in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England. Continuity and Change, 11 (1996). pp: 341-74.
King, Peter. Crime, Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820. Oxford, 2000.
Notes: chap.2-3 - policing; chap.5 - gender; chap.6 - theft; chap.7 - judicial procedures, verdicts; chap.8-10 - punishment general; chap.9 - pardons View or add to this citation.
Philips, David. Good Men to Associate and Bad Men to Conspire: Assocations for the Prosecution of Felons in England, 1760-1860. In Hay, D., Snyder, F. (ed), Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850. Oxford, 1989.
Schubert, A. Private Initiatives in Law Enforcement: Associations for the Prosecution of Felons, 1744-1856. In Bailey, V. (ed), Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain. London, 1981.
Styles, John. Print and Policing: Crime Advertising in Eighteenth-Century Provincial England. In Hay, D., Snyder, F. (ed), Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850. Oxford, 1989.
Constables and the night watch
Beattie, J. M.. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
Notes: chap.3-4 - constables; chap.5 - thief-takers; chap.6-7 - judicial procedures, judges and juries, verdicts; chap.6-10 - pardons; chap.9 - transportation View or add to this citation.
Harris, Andrew T.. Policing and Public Order in the City of London, 1784-1815. London Journal, 28 (2003). pp: 1-20.
Harris, Andrew T.. Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authority in London, 1780-1840. Columbus, Ohio, 2004.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830. London, 1999.
Reynolds, Elaine. Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830. London, 1998.
Thief-takers
Beattie, J. M.. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
Notes: chap.3-4 - constables; chap.5 - thief-takers; chap.6-7 - judicial procedures, judges and juries, verdicts; chap.6-10 - pardons; chap.9 - transportation View or add to this citation.
Howson, Gerald. Thief-Taker General: The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Wild. London, 1970.
Notes: Appendix IV on the Old Bailey Courthouse View or add to this citation.
Moore, Lucy. The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, and Jack Sheppard, House-Breaker. London, 1997.
Paley, Ruth. Thief-takers in London in the Age of the McDaniel Gang, c. 1745-1754. In Hay, D., Snyder, F. (ed), Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850. Oxford, 1989.
Wales, Tim. Thief-takers and Their Clients in Later Stuart London. In Griffiths, P., Jenner, M.S.R. (ed), Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. Manchester, 2000.
The Bow Street Runners
Babington, A.. A House in Bow Street: Crime and the Magistracy in London, 1740-1881. London, 1969.
Battestin, Martin, Battestin, C., Battestin, Ruthe R.. Henry Fielding: A Life. London and New York, 1989.
Goddard, Henry. Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner. London, 1956.
Styles, John. 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
Emsley, C.. The English Police: A Political and Social History. Harlow, Essex, 1991.
Morris, Robert M. "Crime does not pay" : thinking again about detectives in the first century of the Metropolitan Police. In Emsley, Clive, Shpayer-Makov, Haia (ed), Police detectives in history, 1750-1950. 2006.
Palmer, S. H.. Police and Protest in England and Ireland, 1780-1850. Cambridge, 1988.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Oxford, 1994.
Rumbelow, D.. I Spy Blue: The Police and Crime in the City of London from Elizabeth to Victoria. London, 1971.
Shpayer-Makov, Haia. The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914. Aldershot, 2002.
Smith, Phillip Thurmond. Policing Victorian London: Political Policing, Public Order, and the London Metropolitan Police. Westport, Ct, 1985.
Styles, J.. The Emergence of the Police: Explaining Police Reform in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England. British Journal of Criminology, 27 (1987).
