The first English detectives
Subtitle: the Bow Street Runners and the policing of London, 1750-1840
By: J.M. Beattie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199695164
Subjects: Great Britain; Police; Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Service; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Henry Fielding at Bow Street; title: John Fielding and the making of the Bow Street Runners, 1754-1765; title: Detection : the Runners at work, 1765-1792; title: Prosecution : the runners in court, 1765-1792; title: Fielding's Legacy : police reform in the 1780s; title: The Runners in a new age of policing, 1792-1815; title: Prevention : the Runners in retreat, 1815-1839.