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The First English Detectives - The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 (Paperback)
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The First English Detectives - The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 (Paperback)
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This is the first comprehensive study 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
London. They were, Beattie argues, detectives in all but name.
Fielding also created a magistrates' court that was open to the
public, at stated times every day. A second, intimately-related
theme in the book concerns attitudes and ideas about the policing
of London more broadly, particularly from the 1780s, when the
detective and prosecutorial work of the runners came to be
challenged by arguments in favour of the prevention of crime by
surveillance and other means. The last three chapters of the book
continue to follow the runners' work, but at the same time are
concerned with discussions of the larger structure of policing in
London - in parliament, in the Home Office, and in the press. These
discussions were to intensify after 1815, in the face of a sharp
increase in criminal prosecutions. They led - in a far from
straightforward way - to a fundamental reconstitution of the basis
of policing in the capital by Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act
of 1829. The runners were not immediately affected by the creation
of the New Police, but indirectly it led to their disbandment a
decade later.
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