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

by Andrew T. Harris

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 ought to be based on certain and rational punishment rather than random execution, they also had to control the discretionary authority of enforcement. This meant in theory and practice the centralization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814209661
• ISBN13: 9780814209660
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"