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The First English Detectives - The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 (Hardcover)
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The First English Detectives - The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 (Hardcover)
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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 London. They were, Beattie argues, detectives in all but
name. Fielding also created a magistrates' court that was open to
the public for the first time, 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 increasingly opposed 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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