Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-cc8bf7c57-xrnlw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-10T05:32:13.442Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

4 - Arrests

from Part III - Policing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2023

Jonah Miller
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Get access

Summary

This chapter shows how changes to officeholding shaped practices of arrest in the capital. It uses a new dataset to rethink established accounts of early modern policing based on widespread participation. Most arrests in London were made by men and, from the late seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century, a growing proportion were made by officers. At the same time, constables and their colleagues acquired greater powers to arrest people on the basis of suspicion alone. These powers were frequently used against poorer women, who officers arrested on ill-defined charges of vagrancy, night-walking, or suspected theft. In the early eighteenth century one judge called for closer adherence to due process in such arrests, but this had little long-term effect.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Arrests
  • Jonah Miller, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
  • Online publication: 07 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305174.008
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Arrests
  • Jonah Miller, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
  • Online publication: 07 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305174.008
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Arrests
  • Jonah Miller, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
  • Online publication: 07 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305174.008
Available formats
×