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In Western culture, the contemporary concept of a police paid by the government was developed by French legal scholars and practitioners in the 17th century and early 18th century, notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police ("Treatise of the Police", published between 1705 and 1738
The Bloody Code listed 21 categories of capital crimes in the eighteenth century. By 1823, the Judgment of Death Act made the death penalty discretionary for most crimes, and by 1861, the number of capital offences had been reduced to five.
Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-06562-3; Linebaugh, Peter (1991). The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. London: The Penguin Press. ISBN 0-713-99045-7
The system of law in the European tradition, its mechanisms of enforcement and the forms of punishment used prior to the expanse of thought in ideas of crime in the late 18th and early 19th century, were primitive and inconsistent, mainly due to the domination of semi religious, demonological explanations. [1]
18th-century crimes by country (5 C) 0–9. 1700s crimes (7 C) 1710s crimes (10 C) 1720s crimes (11 C) 1730s crimes (5 C, 1 P) 1740s crimes (8 C) 1750s crimes (8 C)
Wild exploited a strong public demand for action during a major 18th-century crime wave in the absence of any effective police force in London. As a powerful gang-leader himself, he became a master manipulator of legal systems, collecting the rewards offered for valuables which he had stolen himself, bribing prison guards to release his ...
The Mohocks were allegedly a gang of violent, well-born criminals that terrorized London during the early 18th century, attacking men and women alike, and taking their name from the Mohawks. [1] Their activities, which were perhaps sensationalized, were said to include murder.
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