Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authority in London, 1780-1840 by Andrew T. Harris

Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authority in London, 1780-1840

History of Crime & Criminal Justice (Hardcover)

Andrew T. Harris

205 pages missing pub info (editions)

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In Policing the City, Harris seeks to explain the transformation of criminal justice, particularly the transformation of policing, between the 1780s and 1830s in the City of London. As utilitarian legal reformers argued that criminal deterrence ou...

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