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Before the Bobbies

The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Elaine A. Reynolds

    1. William Jewell College, Liberty, United States

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 1-6

  3. Westminster, 1720-39

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 7-28

  4. An Expanding Watch, 1748-76

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 29-44

  5. Collaboration, 1750-74

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 45-57

  6. New Means to Old Ends

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 58-83

  7. The War Years, 1793-1815

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 84-102

  8. Night Watch to Police, 1811-28

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 103-124

  9. Why 1829?

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 125-147

  10. Charlies to Bobbies

    • Elaine A. Reynolds
    Pages 148-166

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 167-220
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About this book

Historians, legal scholars, sociologists and crime readers will learn from this book that modern policing emerged long before Scotland Yard. Police reform developed over decades, the work of local authorities motivated more by fears of property crime than radicalism or riots. Local and national officials cooperated at many levels to provide relatively effective policing for London, culminating in Sir Robert Peel's centralized Metropolitan Police in 1829. The early modern British state was thus more responsive to urban problems than previously has been acknowledged.

Authors and Affiliations

  • William Jewell College, Liberty, United States

    Elaine A. Reynolds

About the author

ELAINE A. REYNOLDS was born and educated in upstate New York, earned her undergraduate degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 and her doctorate at Cornell University in 1991. She joined the faculty at William Jewell College in 1986 and is now an Associate Professor. She has also taught at Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York and Harlaxton College, Harlaxton, England.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Before the Bobbies

  • Book Subtitle: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830

  • Authors: Elaine A. Reynolds

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14561-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-14561-4Published: 17 June 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 235

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Policing, Modern History

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