Whores and Highwaymen Durston Gregory J.
Whores and Highwaymen Durston Gregory J. A huge work of reference. Shows how individuals, concerned parties and vested interests drove many of the era's developments. A fresh perspective on a crucial…
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Whores and Highwaymen Durston Gregory J.
A huge work of reference. Shows how individuals, concerned parties and vested interests drove many of the era's developments. A fresh perspective on a crucial time for courts, policing and punishment.
Running to nearly 700 pages, this comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice system looks at every aspect of these topics from numerous perspectives and across the eighteenth century. A colourful account, which captures the essence of the period. The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of Gregory Durston's title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which