Table of Contents
Contnets Introduction
Chapter 1 Crime and Punishment in Medieval England
1.The origins of the English criminal legal system 1
2 The medieval criminal justice system
Chapter 2 Crime and Punishment in the Sixteenth Century
1.The Contemporary view on crime in Tudor England 32
2. Crime and punishment in Tudor London
3.Crime and punishment outside London 58
4 Manor courts 70
5 Church Courts 75
Chapter 3 Crime and Punishment in the Seventeenth Century
1. The criminal process in the seventeenth century 96
2 Crime in the seventeenth century 105
3 Punishment in the seventeenth century 127
Chapter 4 Crime and Bunishment in the Eighteenth Century 1 The criminal process in the eighteenth century 136
2 Crime and punishment in the eighteenth century 157
3 Punishment in the eighteenth century 173
Chapter 5 Crime in the Nineteenth Century
1 Destitution and Crime, 1891 186
2. Men and Women Compared, 1873 190
3. Juvenile offenders, 1819 and 1875 192
4 Burglars and Burgling, 1894 198
5 Gatoring, 1862 199
6 Theives and Swindlers 201
7 Poaching, 1833 204
8Whitechapel Murders, 1888 206
9 Workplace Crime 209
10 Peterloo, 1819 213
11 Piots at Bristol, 1831 216
12 Vargrancy in the Nineteenth Century 219
Chapter 6 The Nineteenth-century Police1 Traditional Policing, 1806 2242 London Police, 1812 225
3 Calls for Police Reform, 1828 226
4 Rural Policing, 1835 226
5 The Cheshire Police Act, 1829-52
6 Police Reform, 1852-3 232
7 Police Violence, 1829, 1831 and 1843 235
8 The Growth of the Metropolitan Police, 1856-70 239
9 Police Charge Book, 1868 243
10. Chief Constable's Report, Staffordshire, 1865 247
11 Chief Constable's Orders, Cheshire, 1858-70 248
12 Memoirs of a chief Constable 250
13 Metropolitan Dectectives, 1850-94 252
Chapter 7 Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century
LawReform 258
2 Rural Magistrates, 1836 262
3 Societies for the Prosecution of Felons, 1832 263
4 Paying for Prosecutions, 1836 264
5 Submission, 1849 265
6 Judge's Correspondence with the King, 1819 265
7 The Justice of the Peace, 1837 270
8 Letters by Defendants, 1857-88 270
9 Low Attorneys, 1854 276
10 The Police Courts, 1870 276
11 The Old Bailey, 1862 283
12 The Law Courts, 1891 284
13 Reform of the Police Courts, 1908 288
14 Magistrates and the Poor, 1903 290
Chapter 8 Punishment in the Nineteenth Century
1 Glouster Prison, 1819 293
2 New South Wales Government and General orgers, 1814 295
Female Convicts, 1829 299
Crime and Transportation, 1838 300
A Day on Board the Defence Hulk, 1862 300
4 Execution for Arson, Lincoln, 1831 305
5 The Last Public Execution, 1868 307
Prison Discipline 314
Pentonville, 1848 316
Fines, 1844 317
Penal Theories 317
Penal servitude, 1885 324
12. Penal Theories 327
Five Years' Penal Servitude, 1878 329
14. Reformatories and Industrial Schools, 1913 329
Glossary 331
Bibliography 335
Index 340
