Description: Summary Justice in the City : A Selection of Cases Heard at the Guildhall Justice Room, 1, Hardcover by Smith, Greg T. (EDT), ISBN 0900952539, ISBN-13 9780900952531, Brand New, Free shipping in the US For centuries, the City of London's Lord Mayor and Aldermen have headed various courts and tribunals as part of their official obligations. In the City's Guildhall, Londoners from all walks of life could appear before an alderman sitting as a magistrate in the "justice room" and initiate a criminal complaint when they were the victims of crime. But what actually happened in those initial hearings between the accuser, the accused and the magistrate has remained largely obscured to history. These records shed light on the earliest phases of a criminal prosecution and reveal the routines of criminal justice administration in the eighteenth-century metropolis. From the fragmentary minutes of the proceedings conducted before London's aldermen, who sat for a part of every working day as Justices of the Peace, we learn of the petty squabbles of the City's poor with parish officials, the ready resort to physical violence in public and private spheres, the steady campaign against prostitution, and the growing professionalism of the parish constables who policed London before the arrival of the Metropolitan records will be of interest to historians of London, social historians of crime, genealogists and scholars interested in summary or pre-trial procedures in early modern England; they are presented here with introduction and explanatory notes. Greg T. Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.
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Book Title: Summary Justice in the City : A Selection of Cases Heard at the G
Number of Pages: 399 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Summary Justice in the City : a Selection of Cases Heard at the Guildhall Justice Room, 1752-1781
Publisher: London Record Society
Subject: General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Court Records
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Law, History
Item Length: 10.1 in
Author: Greg T. Smith
Series: London Record Society Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
