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Whores and highwaymen : crime and justice in the eighteenth-century metropolis /
A comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and London's embryonic modern criminal justice system which looks at every aspect of these topics from numerous perspectives and across the eighteenth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sherfield on London, UK :
Waterside Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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 “Police�""; ""Other Parts of the British Isles""; ""The Medieval Policing Legacy""; ""Problems with Policing""; ""Validity of Criticism""
- ""Paris and Continental Cities""""The “Professional� 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""