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Subject(s)

• Great Britain Metropolitan Police Service—History [Browse]
• Police—England—London—History [Browse]

Series

Oxford World's Classics [More in this series]

Summary note

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 L

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Henry Fielding at Bow Street; 3. Sir John Fielding and the Making of the Bow Street Runners, 1754-1765; 1. The early years of the office: structure, personnel, work; 2. Wartime: policing the poor; 3. Postwar: a new plan of police; 4. Detection: The Runners at Work, 1765-1792; 1. A 'transporting and hanging police'?; 2. Detection; 3. Apprehension; 5. Prosecution: The Runners in Court, 1765-1792; 1. Introduction; 2. John Fielding and the Bow Street Magistrates' court; 3. The Brown Bear
• 4. The runners in court5. The runners and defence counsel; 6. Conclusion; 6. Fielding's Legacy: Police Reform in the 1780s; 1. The government and policing in the 1780s; 2. The Bow Street patrol; 3. The London and Westminster Police Bill, 1785; 4. The Middlesex Justices Act, 1792; 7. The Runners in a New Age of Policing, 1792-1815; 1. Bow Street and the Police Act; 2. Crime, the runners, and the patrol, 1792-1815; 3. New policing demands; (a) National security; (b) Royal security; (c) Public order; 4. The value of office: 'extraordinary' payments
• 8. Prevention: The Runners in Retreat, 1815-18391. London crime in the early nineteenth century; 2. The runners and post-war crime; 3. The limits of police reform, 1815-1822; 4. Sir Robert Peel at the Home Office; 5. The Metropolitan Police Act, 1829; 6. Bow Street and the Metropolitan Police; Epilogue; Bibliography of Manuscript Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

ISBN

• 0-19-967538-4
• 9786613623812
• 1-280-59398-9
• 0-19-162353-9

OCLC

782916535

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