A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis : Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by Which Public and Private Property and Security Are, at Present, Injured and Endangered, and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108043925
ISBN-13
9781108043922
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 16th, 2012
Print length
514 Pages
Weight
700 grams
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14.00 x 21.60 x 3.40 cms
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Magistrate Patrick Colquhoun (1745–1820) published his work on crime in London anonymously in 1796; this reissue is of the fourth edition of 1797. The book described the various categories of crime, and offered ideas on how to regulate the behaviour of the inhabitants to suppress it.
Patrick Colquhoun (1745–1820) was one of the founders, in 1798, of the Thames River Police. Initially a merchant based in Glasgow, he later moved to London and was appointed as a magistrate in the East End. In 1796, he published (anonymously) a report on the types of crime in the capital, and the need for regulation of the behaviour of the inhabitants to suppress it. The work examines the different categories of crime in London, such as illegal trading in the docks, fraud, burglary, and robbery. Later chapters discuss the issue of punishment as well as the changes Colquhoun believed were required in the existing police force. In this 1797 fourth edition - one of six later editions that were published by 1799 - Colquhoun added a lengthy exposition on gambling. Although many of his measures were considered unworkable, Colquhoun's ideas played an important part in the development of modern policing.
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