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- Book Title
- The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Poli
- Publication Date
- 2012-02-09
- ISBN
- 9780199695164
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199695164
ISBN-13
9780199695164
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113510933
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
First English Detectives : the Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Law Enforcement, Europe / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-939890
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The strengths of this book are ones we have come to expect from Beatti. The reasearch is deep, in primary and secondary sources. He has clearly learned his way around digital sources such as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. His wide reading in the most recent scholarship makes this account particularly compelling. The prose is crisp and persuasive, with a judicious mix of statistics, illustrations, and anecdote."--Journal of British Studies"John Beattie's latest work, The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840, is a fine addition both to his personal legacy as a historian and to the wider contribution of the Toronto School of legal history scholarship....[W]ritten in a lucid and elegant style, incorporates meticulous research, and offers a remarkable level of narrative detail....[T]he precise narrative road map Beattie provides, using both primary and secondary literature, is of inestimable value to anyone interested in the reform of metropolitan policing and the development of official attitudes toward crime."--Journal of Modern History, "The strengths of this book are ones we have come to expect from Beatti. The reasearch is deep, in primary and secondary sources. He has clearly learned his way around digital sources such as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. His wide reading in the most recent scholarship makes this account particularly compelling. The prose is crisp and persuasive, with a judicious mix of statistics, illustrations, and anecdote." --Journal of British Studies, [a] superb book ... As those who know his earlier works on crime, policing and criminal justice in the 18th century would expect, one of the great strengths of this book is the sense it gives of the way the changing activities of the runners intertwined with changes in other brances of the criminal justice system - the changing functions of the magistrates' courts, for example, as awareness grew of the need to separate the investigative and judicial functions of the magistracy, andto extend the system of police courts more widely through London., "The strengths of this book are ones we have come to expect from Beatti. The reasearch is deep, in primary and secondary sources. He has clearly learned his way around digital sources such as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. His wide reading in the most recent scholarship makes this account particularly compelling. The prose is crisp and persuasive, with a judicious mix of statistics, illustrations, and anecdote." --Journal of British Studies "John Beattie's latest work, The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840, is a fine addition both to his personal legacy as a historian and to the wider contribution of the Toronto School of legal history scholarship. ... [W]ritten in a lucid and elegant style, incorporates meticulous research, and offers a remarkable level of narrative detail. ... [T]he precise narrative road map Beattie provides, using both primary and secondary literature, is of inestimable value to anyone interested in the reform of metropolitan policing and the development of official attitudes toward crime." --Journal of Modern History, Beattie's readable book is, however, the first serious study that provides a systematic account of the work of Bow Street and the way that it developed into a centre for the detection of serious crime., Beattie's lively history of the Bow Street Runners is a first-rate account of the evolution of 'thief-takers' into a professional crime-solving force after the group's creation by Henry Fielding., ... the foremost historian of crime, the law and policing in Hanoverian London, brings his formidable knowledge and astute perception to tracing the history of the Bow Street police ... a short review cannot do justice to the research and shrewd judgements that underlie this lively volume ... anyone interested in the history of crime and policing in England cannot afford to ignore it., "The strengths of this book are ones we have come to expect from Beatti. The reasearch is deep, in primary and secondary sources. He has clearly learned his way around digital sources such as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. His wide reading in the most recent scholarship makes this account particularly compelling. The prose is crisp and persuasive, with a judicious mix of statistics, illustrations, and anecdote."--Journal of British Studies "John Beattie's latest work, The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840, is a fine addition both to his personal legacy as a historian and to the wider contribution of the Toronto School of legal history scholarship....[W]ritten in a lucid and elegant style, incorporates meticulous research, and offers a remarkable level of narrative detail....[T]he precise narrative road map Beattie provides, using both primary and secondary literature, is of inestimable value to anyone interested in the reform of metropolitan policing and the development of official attitudes toward crime."--Journal of Modern History
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.2092/2421
Table Of Content
1. Introduction2. Henry Fielding at Bow Street3. John Fielding and the making of the Bow Street Runners4. Detection: the Runners at Work, 1765-17925. Prosecution: the runners in court, 1765-17926. Fielding's Legacy: police reform in the 1780s7. The Runners in a New Age of Policing, 1792-18158. Prevention: the Runners in Retreat, 1815-1839EpilogueBibliography
Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive study of the 90-year history of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London. They were developed over the following decades by his half-brother, John Fielding, into what became a well-known and stable group of officers who acquired skill and expertise in investigating crime, tracking and arresting offenders, and in presenting evidence at the Old Bailey, the main criminal court in London. They were, Beattie argues, detectives in all but name. Fielding also created a magistrates' court that was open to the public for the first time, at stated times every day. A second, intimately-related theme in the book concerns attitudes and ideas about the policing of London more broadly, particularly from the 1780s, when the detective and prosecutorial work of the runners came to be increasingly opposed by arguments in favour of the prevention of crime by surveillance and other means. The last three chapters of the book continue to follow the runners' work, but at the same time are concerned with discussions of the larger structure of policing in London - in parliament, in the Home Office, and in the press. These discussions were to intensify after 1815, in the face of a sharp increase in criminal prosecutions. They led - in a far from straightforward way - to a fundamental reconstitution of the basis of policing in the capital by Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police act of 1829. The runners were not immediately affected by the creation of the New Police, but indirectly it led to their disbandment a decade later., 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 scholarly study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London. They were developed over the following decades by his half-brother, John Fielding, into what became a well-known and stable group of officers who acquired skill and expertise in investigating crime, tracking and arresting offenders, and in presenting evidence at the Old Bailey, the main criminal court in London. They were, Beattie argues, detectives in all but name. Fielding also created a magistrates' court that was open to the public for the first time, at stated times every day. A second, intimately-related theme in the book concerns attitudes and ideas about the policing of London more broadly, particularly from the 1780s, when the detective and prosecutorial work of the runners came to be increasingly opposed by arguments in favour of the prevention of crime by surveillance and other means. The last three chapters of the book continue to follow the runners' work, but at the same time are concerned with discussions of the larger structure of policing in London - in parliament, in the Home Office, and in the press. These discussions were to intensify after 1815, in the face of a sharp increase in criminal prosecutions. They led - in a far from straightforward way - to a fundamental reconstitution of the basis of policing in the capital by Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police act of 1829. The runners were not immediately affected by the creation of the New Police, but indirectly it led to their disbandment a decade later., This is the first comprehensive study of the 90-year history of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London. They were developed over the following decades by his half-brother, John Fielding, into what became a well-known and stable group of officers who acquired skill and expertise ininvestigating crime, tracking and arresting offenders, and in presenting evidence at the Old Bailey, the main criminal court in London. They were, Beattie argues, detectives in all but name. Fieldingalso created a magistrates' court that was open to the public for the first time, at stated times every day. A second, intimately-related theme in the book concerns attitudes and ideas about the policing of London more broadly, particularly from the 1780s, when the detective and prosecutorial work of the runners came to be increasingly opposed by arguments in favour of the prevention of crime by surveillance and other means. The last three chapters of the book continue tofollow the runners' work, but at the same time are concerned with discussions of the larger structure of policing in London - in parliament, in the Home Office, and in the press. These discussions wereto intensify after 1815, in the face of a sharp increase in criminal prosecutions. They led - in a far from straightforward way - to a fundamental reconstitution of the basis of policing in the capital by Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police act of 1829. The runners were not immediately affected by the creation of the New Police, but indirectly it led to their disbandment a decade later.
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