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Rogues, Thieves And the Rule of Law - The Problem Of Law Enforcement In North-East England, 1718-1820 (Hardcover)
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Rogues, Thieves And the Rule of Law - The Problem Of Law Enforcement In North-East England, 1718-1820 (Hardcover)
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"Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law" is a large-scale study of
crime, disorder and law enforcement in northern England in the
early modern period. London was not the only city where female
criminals were common and gangs were feared, nor was it the sole
centre of industrial and political agitation. The north was an area
of national significance which supplied the capital with its fuel
and whose tendency to industrial insurgence commanded the attention
of every 18th-century administration. Arguing that much of the
recent work on early modern crime has focused on London and its
surrounding counties, which have wrongly been interpreted as
typical of the whole country, this study, in contrast, seeks to
place the metropolitan image within the wider context of regional
realities. As such, it offers a significant antidote to the picture
of excessive brutality associated with London and Tyburn, breaking
new ground by encompassing crime in an entire region and at all
levels of the judicial system. It uniquely reflects upon gender and
crime, the development of transportation, the rise of imprisonment
and the convergence of military and civil power, in an attempt to
contain an assertive and
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