The Making of the Modern Police, 1780-1914, Part I

Part I General Introduction Volume I: The 'Idea' of Policing Timothy Beck and Ben Sedgley, Observations on Mr Fielding's Enquiry (1751), excerpts; John Fielding, A Plan for Preventing Robberies (1755); Jonas Hanway, The Citizen's Monitor (1780), excerpts; Thomas Gilbert, A Plan of Police (1781), excerpt; Edward Sayer, Observations on the Police (1784), excerpts; William Blizard, Desultory Reflections on Police (1785), excerpts; William Mainwaring, An Address to the Grand Jury (1785), excerpt; George Barrett, Establishing a System of Police (1786), excerpt; A Letter to Archibald MacDonald (1786), excerpts; Henry Zouch, Hints Respecting the Public Police (1786), excerpts; William Man Godschall, A General Plan of Parochial and Provincial Police (1787), excerpts; W H, Some Hints Towards a Revival of the Penal Laws (1787), excerpts; David Williams, Regulations of Parochial Police (1797), excerpts; Patrick Colquhoun, A General View of the National Police System (1799), excerpts; Observations on a Late Publication (1800), excerpts Volume 2: Reforming the Police in the Nineteenth Century Contemporary Material Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis (1828), excerpts; Metropolitan Police Improvement Act 1829, excerpts; Albany Fonblanque, 'The Ancient Watch and New Police', Examiner (1829); Metropolitan Police Act 1833; Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis (1834), excerpts; Municipal Corporations Act 1835, excerpt; First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary (1839), excerpts; 'Rural Police', A Letter from Home Secretary to Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (1839); County Police Act 1839; County and District Constabulary (1839), excerpts. Rural Police in Essex: 'Essex Adjourned Session: Establishment of the Rural Police in Essex', Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (1839); 'Rural Police', Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties (1839). General Birmingham Police Act 1839, excerpts; 'Rebecca Riots' (1843); 'The Police System of London', Edinburgh Review (1852), excerpts; First and Second Reports from the Select Committee Appointed to Consider the Expediency of Adopting a More Uniform System of Police in England and Wales, and in Scotland (1852-3), excerpts; County and Borough Police Act 1856, excerpts; Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill 1856, excerpts; General Regulations, Instructions and Orders for the Government and Guidance of the Metropolitan Police Force (1862), excerpts; The Police Force of the Metropolis in 1868 (1868); Disturbances (Metropolis) (1886); The Cass Case (1887); Local Government Act 1888, excerpts; Royal Commission on the Duties of the Metropolitan Police (1908), excerpts Memoir and Biography R Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life (1910), excerpt; T A Cavanagh, Scotland Yard Past and Present (1893), excerpts; George H Greenham, Scotland Yard Experiences (1904), excerpts; R Jervis, Chronicles of a Victorian Detective (1995), excerpts; S H Jeyes and F D How, The Life of Sir Howard Vincent (1912), excerpts. Two Metropolitan Detectives: Andrew Lansdowne, A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard (1890), excerpts; Jack Littlechild, Reminiscences of Chief Inspector Littlechild (1894), excerpts; H R P Gamon, The London Police Court Today and Tomorrow (1907), excerpt; H Smith, From Constable to Commissioner (1910), excerpt; Melville L Macnaghten, Days of My Years (1914), excerpts; John William Nott-Bower, Fifty-Two Years a Policeman (1926), excerpts Volume 3: Policing the Poor Poverty and Crime Randle Jackson, Considerations on the Increase of Crime (1828), excerpt; William Augustus Miles, Poverty, Mendacity and Crime (1839), excerpt; John Clay, 'On the Effect of Good or Bad Times on Committals to Prison', Journal of the Statistical Society of London (1855); [Henry Wilkinson Holland], 'Thieves and Thieving', Cornhill Magazine (1860); Michael James Whitty, A Proposal for Diminishing Crime, Misery and Poverty in Liverpool (1865), excerpt; William Hoyle, On the Cause of Crime (1876), excerpt; Henry Solly, 'Destitute, Poor and Criminal Classes', National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1868); William Harbutt Dawson, The Vagrancy Problem (1910), excerpts Policing the Poor in Practice John Fairburn, Fairburn's Abstract of the New Metropolitan Police Act (1829), excerpts; Bristol Police. Instruction Book (1836), excerpts; Selections on Vagrancy from Justice of the Peace (1880); Selection of Metropolitan Police Orders (1859-76); 'Distress: Reports from Metropolitan Police Divisions' (1879), excerpts; 'Tramps and Vagrants in Trafalgar Square' (1887); Chief Constable's Reports to Quarter Sessions (1890-6), excerpts; Vagrancy: Night Shelters for Homeless Men and Women (1889-92); 'Unemployed Men Parading Streets for the Purpose of Soliciting Alms' (1886-1903), excerpts Personal Reflections on Policing and Poverty Thomas Woollaston, Police Experiences (1884), excerpt; William Henderson, Clues: or Leaves from a Chief Constable's Notebook (1889), excerpt; James Bent, Criminal Life (1891), excerpt; Thomas Smethurst, Reminiscences of a Bolton and Stalybridge Policeman 1888-1922 (1983), excerpts; Jerome Caminada, Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life (1895-1901), excerpts; Richard Jervis, Lancashire's Crime and Criminals (1908), excerpt; Robert Albert Fuller, Recollections of a Detective (1912), excerpt; Frederick Porter Wensley, Detective Days (1931), excerpt; Benjamin Leeson, Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective (1934), excerpt; William Cameron, Hawkie; The Autobiography of a Gangrel (1888), excerpt; Anon., Scenes from my Life (1858), excerpt; Clarence Rook, The Hooligan Nights (1899), excerpt; Edwin Grey, Cottage Life in a Hertfordshire Village (1935), excerpts