[...]... makers and decision-making in the English criminal law, 1750–1800’, Historical Journal, vol 27 (1984) For eighteenth-century trials, see: J M Beattie, Crime and the courts in Surrey’, in J S Cockburn, ed., Crime in England, 1550–1800 (London, 1977); Beattie, Crime and Introduction 5 Beattie’s analysis integrates punishment – and so the bloody code and its change – with both the court’s decisions and. .. Innes and J Styles, ‘The crime wave: recent writing on crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century England’, in A Wilson, ed., Rethinking social history: English society 1570–1920 and its interpretation (Manchester, 1993), pp 233–9 Radzinowicz, History of English criminal law, vol I, p 35; W H Lecky, England in the eighteenth century, new edn, vol VII (New York, 1903), p 320 6 Norma Landau and. .. author of Whigs and cities: popular politics in the age of Walpole and Pitt (Oxford and New York, 1989); Crowds, culture and politics in Georgian Britain (Oxford and New York, 1998); and, with Douglas Hay, of Eighteenth-century English society: shuttles and swords (Oxford and New York, 1997) He is currently completing a book on naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain and the Atlantic... Beattie, Crime and the courts in England, 1660–1800 (Princeton, 1986), and Policing and punishment in London, 1660–1750: urban crime and the limits of terror (Oxford, 2001) For problems intrinsic to analysis of indictments, see J M Beattie, ‘Towards a study of crime in eighteenth-century England: a note on indictments’, in P Fritz and D Williams, eds., The triumph of culture (Toronto, 1972) 1 2 Norma Landau... 208–15 Beattie, Crime and the courts, p 264 D Hay, ‘War, dearth and theft in the eighteenth century: the record of the English courts’, Past and Present, no 95 (1982) P King, Crime, justice, and discretion in England, 1740–1820 (Oxford, 2000), pp 145–52 See especially Beattie, Policing and punishment, pp 45–73, and chaps 7, 8, 9 Introduction 13 courts into presentation of that responsive and effective... 17 (1998); J Hoppit and J Innes, ‘Introduction’, in J Hoppit, ed., Failed legislation, 1660–1800 (London and Rio Grande, 1997) Sir W Holdsworth, A history of English law, vol XI (London, 1938), pp 323–4; P Langford, Public life and the propertied Englishman, 1689–1793 (Oxford, 1991), chap 3 Innes, ‘Parliament and the shaping of eighteenth-century English social policy’ 8 Norma Landau the enactment... eighteenth-century England, and beginning a new project on eighteenth-century London newspaper advertisement   holds a joint appointment in the History Department and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto He is a contributor to and an editor of Albion’s fatal tree (London and New York, 1975), Policing and prosecution in Britain 1750–1850 (Oxford, 1989) and Labour, law and crime: an historical... historical perspective (London and New York, 1987); and is joint author with Nicholas Rogers of Eighteenth-century English society: shuttles and swords (Oxford and New York, 1997) He has also written numerous articles and chapters which have appeared in journals and other collections He is currently working on a study of the court of King’s Bench, and a collaborative project on master and servant law in the... England  , professor of history at the University of Oregon, has co-authored with Donna Andrew The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd: forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London (Berkeley, 2001) He is also the author of numerous articles on punishment and the criminal law, and is currently at work on a book on the debate over forgery and capital punishment in early nineteenth-century England... eighteenth-century London’, in J Hagan and R D Person, eds., Crime and Inequality (Stanford, 1995); Beattie, Policing and punishment, pp 63–72, 336–8, 356–7 D Andrew, ‘The code of honour and its critics: the opposition to duelling in England, 1700–1850’, Social History, vol 5 (1980) J Kamensky, Governing the tongue: the politics of speech in early New England (New York, 1997), pp 133–5, and more generally pp 128–42 . page intentionally left blank Law, Crime and English Society, 1660–1830 This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered and used in eighteenth-century England. An international team. author of The justices of the peace, 1679–1760, published in 1984. Law, Crime and English Society, 1660–1830 edited by Norma Landau University of California at Davis     . to and an editor of Albion’s fatal tree (London and New York, 1975), Policing and prosecution in Britain 1750–1850 (Oxford, 1989) and Labour, law and crime: an historical perspective (London and