J M Beattie.

J M Beattie. Policing an Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. novel York: Oxford University Press. 2001 Pp xx 491 $7400 ISBN 0-19-820867-7

The not new Bailey sat at the center of the eighteenth-century criminal justice scheme The magistrates, aldermen, and lord mayors who ran it and warmed its hard benches with their ample posteriors did more to create what would become the British order of criminal trial than perhaps any other single cluster of individuals. It was here in the antique Bailey that solicitors were first displayed as defense council ...

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