About the Book
Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first modern police force. It will be of interest to social and political historians, criminologists and those interested in the development of the detective novel in nineteenth-century literature.
Table of Contents:
Part I General Introduction Volume I: The 'Idea' of Policing Timothy Beck and Ben Sedgley, Observations on Mr Fielding's Enquiry (1751), excerpts; John Fielding, A Plan for Preventing Robberies (1755); Jonas Hanway, The Citizen's Monitor (1780), excerpts; Thomas Gilbert, A Plan of Police (1781), excerpt; Edward Sayer, Observations on the Police (1784), excerpts; William Blizard, Desultory Reflections on Police (1785), excerpts; William Mainwaring, An Address to the Grand Jury (1785), excerpt; George Barrett, Establishing a System of Police (1786), excerpt; A Letter to Archibald MacDonald (1786), excerpts; Henry Zouch, Hints Respecting the Public Police (1786), excerpts; William Man Godschall, A General Plan of Parochial and Provincial Police (1787), excerpts; W H, Some Hints Towards a Revival of the Penal Laws (1787), excerpts; David Williams, Regulations of Parochial Police (1797), excerpts; Patrick Colquhoun, A General View of the National Police System (1799), excerpts; Observations on a Late Publication (1800), excerpts Volume 2: Reforming the Police in the Nineteenth Century Contemporary Material Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis (1828), excerpts; Metropolitan Police Improvement Act 1829, excerpts; Albany Fonblanque, 'The Ancient Watch and New Police', Examiner (1829); Metropolitan Police Act 1833; Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis (1834), excerpts; Municipal Corporations Act 1835, excerpt; First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary (1839), excerpts; 'Rural Police', A Letter from Home Secretary to Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (1839); County Police Act 1839; County and District Constabulary (1839), excerpts. Rural Police in Essex: 'Essex Adjourned Session: Establishment of the Rural Police in Essex', Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (1839); 'Rural Police', Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (1839). General Birmingham Police Act 1839, excerpts; 'Rebecca Riots' (1843); 'The Police System of London', Edinburgh Review (1852), excerpts; First and Second Reports from the Select Committee Appointed to Consider the Expediency of Adopting a More Uniform System of Police in England and Wales, and in Scotland (1852-3), excerpts; County and Borough Police Act 1856, excerpts; Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill 1856, excerpts; General Regulations, Instructions and Orders for the Government and Guidance of the Metropolitan Police Force (1862), excerpts; The Police Force of the Metropolis in 1868 (1868); Disturbances (Metropolis) (1886); The Cass Case (1887); Local Government Act 1888, excerpts; Royal Commission on the Duties of the Metropolitan Police (1908), excerpts Memoir and Biography R Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life (1910), excerpt; T A Cavanagh, Scotland Yard Past and Present (1893), excerpts; George H Greenham, Scotland Yard Experiences (1904), excerpts; R Jervis, Chronicles of a Victorian Detective (1995), excerpts; S H Jeyes and F D How, The Life of Sir Howard Vincent (1912), excerpts. Two Metropolitan Detectives: Andrew Lansdowne, A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard (1890), excerpts; Jack Littlechild, Reminiscences of Chief Inspector Littlechild (1894), excerpts; H R P Gamon, The London Police Court Today and Tomorrow (1907), excerpt; H Smith, From Constable to Commissioner (1910), excerpt; Melville L Macnaghten, Days of My Years (1914), excerpts; John William Nott-Bower, Fifty-Two Years a Policeman (1926), excerpts Volume 3: Policing the Poor Poverty and Crime Randle Jackson, Considerations on the Increase of Crime (1828), excerpt; William Augustus Miles, Poverty, Mendacity and Crime (1839), excerpt; John Clay, 'On the Effect of Good or Bad Times on Committals to Prison', Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1855); [Henry Wilkinson Holland], 'Thieves and Thieving', Cornhill Magazine (1860); Michael James Whitty, A Proposal for Diminishing Crime, Misery and Poverty in Liverpool (1865), excerpt; William Hoyle, On the Cause of Crime (1876), excerpt; Henry Solly, 'Destitute, Poor and Criminal Classes', National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1868); William Harbutt Dawson, The Vagrancy Problem (1910), excerpts Policing the Poor in Practice John Fairburn, Fairburn's Abstract of the New Metropolitan Police Act (1829), excerpts; Bristol Police. Instruction Book (1836), excerpts; Selections on Vagrancy from Justice of the Peace (1880); Selection of Metropolitan Police Orders (1859-76); 'Distress: Reports from Metropolitan Police Divisions' (1879), excerpts; 'Tramps and Vagrants in Trafalgar Square' (1887); Chief Constable's Reports to Quarter Sessions (1890-6), excerpts; Vagrancy: Night Shelters for Homeless Men and Women (1889-92); 'Unemployed Men Parading Streets for the Purpose of Soliciting Alms' (1886-1903), excerpts Personal Reflections on Policing and Poverty Thomas Woollaston, Police Experiences (1884), excerpt; William Henderson, Clues: or Leaves from a Chief Constable's Notebook (1889), excerpt; James Bent, Criminal Life (1891), excerpt; Thomas Smethurst, Reminiscences of a Bolton and Stalybridge Policeman 1888-1922 (1983), excerpts; Jerome Caminada, Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life (1895-1901), excerpts; Richard Jervis, Lancashire's Crime and Criminals (1908), excerpt; Robert Albert Fuller, Recollections of a Detective (1912), excerpt; Frederick Porter Wensley, Detective Days (1931), excerpt; Benjamin Leeson, Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective (1934), excerpt; William Cameron, Hawkie; The Autobiography of a Gangrel (1888), excerpt; Anon., Scenes from my Life (1858), excerpt; Clarence Rook, The Hooligan Nights (1899), excerpt; Edwin Grey, Cottage Life in a Hertfordshire Village (1935), excerpts
About the Author :
Paul Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. He is the co-author of Crime and Justice 1750-1950 (Willan, 2005), History and Crime (Sage, 2007) and the editor of The New Police in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011). He has published widely on many aspects of crime and policing and has conducted archival research into policing in England, France and Germany. He directs the International Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice. Francis Dodsworth is a Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the Open University and a specialist on debates around the development of policing. He has published on various aspects of crime and policing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including work on debates around early policing which have appeared in several collections of essays, as well as Journal of the History of Ideas, British Journal of Criminology and Social History. Robert Morris is an affiliated Researcher with the International Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice. As a Home Office civil servant, he worked on policing issues including being Home Office liaison officer with Scotland Yard and was in charge of the Bill team on what became the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. He has written extensively on police reform in the nineteenth century.
Review :
'[an] excellent compendium, which is likely to be a huge help to anyone who wishes to set about mining the many rich seams of police history.' Times Literary Supplement 'will be essential for any serious researcher on early police history.' Police History Society newsletter
