This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London.
This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London.
The late J. M. Beattie was born in England in 1932 and emigrated to the US in 1949. He studied at the University of San Francisco (BA, 1954), the University of California, Berkeley (MA, 1956), and Cambridge (Ph.D, 1963). He taught in the History Department and the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto from 1961 to his retirement in 1997. He has published The English Court in the Reign of George I (1967 and 2008), Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (1986), and Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (2001).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction 2: Henry Fielding at Bow Street 3: John Fielding and the making of the Bow Street Runners 4: Detection: the Runners at Work, 1765-1792 5: Prosecution: the runners in court, 1765-1792 6: Fielding's Legacy: police reform in the 1780s 7: The Runners in a New Age of Policing, 1792-1815 8: Prevention: the Runners in Retreat, 1815-1839 Epilogue Bibliography
1: Introduction 2: Henry Fielding at Bow Street 3: John Fielding and the making of the Bow Street Runners 4: Detection: the Runners at Work, 1765-1792 5: Prosecution: the runners in court, 1765-1792 6: Fielding's Legacy: police reform in the 1780s 7: The Runners in a New Age of Policing, 1792-1815 8: Prevention: the Runners in Retreat, 1815-1839 Epilogue Bibliography
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