Whores and highwaymen: crime and justice in the eighteenth-century metropolis
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1. Verfasser: Durston, Gregory (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Sherfield on London, UK Waterside Press 2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""About the Author""; ""Dedication""; ""PICTURE SECTION""; ""Part One: Crime and the Metropolis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Terms of Reference""; ""Sources of Information""; ""Printed primary sources""; ""Old Bailey Sessions Papers""; ""Treatises and biographies""; ""Historiography""; ""THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY METROPOLIS""; ""Introduction""; ""Metropolitan Government""; ""The City""; ""Southwark""; ""Westminster and urban Middlesex""; ""Expansion of the Conurbation""; ""Population Growth""; ""Mortality""
""Inward Migration""""Responses to the Indigent""; ""Rise of the Middle Class""; ""Social Segregation""; ""Decline in Communitarianism""; ""Power""; ""The Urban Day""; ""Urban street lighting""; ""Alcohol Consumption""; ""METROPOLITAN CRIME""; ""Definitions of Crime""; ""Legal Classification of Crimes""; ""Treason""; ""Felony""; ""Benefit of clergy""; ""Unclergyable forms of theft""; ""Rationale for clergy""; ""Petty theft""; ""Misdemeanours""; ""Crime Rates and Patterns""; ""Lethal Violence""; ""Non-Lethal Violence""; ""Assault and the Law""; ""The Incidence of Property Crime""
""Female participation in crime""""Juvenile participation in crime""; ""Juveniles and the law""; ""The Metropolis and its Environs""; ""Professional Crime""; ""White Collar Crime""; ""ATTITUDES TOWARDS CRIME AND POLICING""; ""Concern about Metropolitan Crime""; ""Legitimacy and the Criminal Law""; ""Reform Movements""; ""Reformation societies""; ""EXPLANATIONS FOR METROPOLITAN CRIME""; ""Introduction""; ""Immorality""; ""Structural Determinants""; ""Need and Greed""; ""Opportunity to Offend""; ""The Effects of War on Crime""; ""Receivers""; ""Pawnbrokers""; ""CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE""
""Introduction""""Lack of Informal Controls""; ""Ease of Access to the Law""; ""Criminal Procedure""; ""Attrition""; ""The Growth of Legalism""; ""Metropolitan Lawyers""; ""Popular Legal Knowledge""; ""The Impact of Legalism""; ""The Role of Discretion""; ""Sodomy and discretion""; ""Limits to discretion""; ""Reluctance to Reform""; ""Part Two: Policing""; ""POLICING THE METROPOLIS""; ""Introduction""; ""Reformers""; ""The Concept of a â€Policeâ€?""; ""Other Parts of the British Isles""; ""The Medieval Policing Legacy""; ""Problems with Policing""; ""Validity of Criticism""
""Paris and Continental Cities""""The â€Professionalâ€? Police of the 1700s""; ""Police and the Political Nation""; ""Anonymity of Parish Officers""; ""Fragmentation of Policing""; ""Exceptions""; ""Amelioration""; ""Proposals for Reform""; ""CONSTABLES""; ""Introduction""; ""Appointment of Constables in Middlesex and Westminster""; ""Appointment of Constables in the City""; ""Qualifications and Qualities""; ""Unpopularity of the Office""; ""Substitutes""; ""Quality of substitutes""; ""Conflicting Pressures on Constables""; ""Operation""; ""Constable of the Night""; ""Control of Constables""
Beschreibung:xv, 668 pages
ISBN:1908162198
9781908162199
9781904380757
1904380751

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