Rogues, Thieves And the Rule of Law - 9781857281163

Taylor & Francis

A study of crime and law enforcement in the north-eastern counties between the Transportation Act of 1718 and the \""Bloody Code\"" of the 1800s - the key period of debate in the history of English crime. > Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law\"" is a large-scale study of crime, disorder and law enforcement in northern England in the early modern period. London was not the only city where female criminals were common and gangs were feared, nor was it the sole centre of industrial and political agitation. The north was an area of national significance which supplied the capital with its fuel and whose tendency to industrial insurgence commanded the attention of every 18th-century administration.; Arguing that much of the recent work on early modern crime has focused on London and its surrounding counties, which have wrongly been interpreted as typical of the whole country, this study, in contrast, seeks to place the metropolitan image within the wider context of regional realities. As w