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Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750
J. M. Beattie
其他書名
Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror
出版OUP Oxford, 2001-07-26
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceSocial Science / Criminology
ISBN01915433229780191543326
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LhRREAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. At the same time, the City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment - particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labour - that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment. The book investigates why in the century after 1660 the elements of an alternative means of dealing with crime in urban society were emerging in policing, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.