Policing and prosecution in Britain 1750-1850 / edited by Douglas Hay and Francis Snyder.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1989.

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Police -- History.

Police -- Great Britain -- History.

Prosecution -- History.

Prosecution -- Great Britain -- History.

I Introduction

1 Using the criminal law, 1750-1850: policing, private prosecution, and the state

2 Print and policing: crime advertising in eighteenth-century provincial England

3 Good men to associate and bad men to conspire: associations for the prosecution of felons in England, 1760-1860

4 Prosecution associations and their impact in eighteenth-century Essex

5 Policing rural southern England before the police: opinion and practice, 1830-1856

6 The social production of Scottish policing, 1795-1900

7 Thief-takers in London in the age of McDaniel Gang

8 Prosecution and power: malicious prosecution in the English courts, 1750-1850

9 Prosecutions and their context: the use of the criminal law in later nineteenth-century London

10 Crown prosecutions in nineteenth-century Ireland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

xv, 470 p. : ill. ; 24 cm