Title Armed with swords and scales : law, culture, and local courtrooms in London, 1860-1913 / Sascha Auerbach, University of Nottingham

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Studies in legal history Studies in legal history. Contents Introduction -- "Many-coloured scenes of life" : the police courts in metropolitan culture and society, 1758-1860 -- "A ruffian rightly punished" : morality and local courtrooms in practice and portrayal, 1860-1880 -- "An evil quarter of an hour about the precincts" : urban reform and municipal authority in the courtroom, 1870-1902 -- "Two shillings' worth of revenge in the form of a summons" : the integration of courtrooms and communities in London, 1882-1902 -- A poor woman's court of justice, 1882-1910 -- "The very centre of observation and information" : constables, magistrates, and changing patterns of prosecution and punishment, 1880-1913 -- The historical and cultural legacies of the London magistrates courts Summary "In 1891, George P. Ingersoll travelled to London to gather material for the Yale Law Journal . Ingersoll belonged to one of Connecticut's most illustrious political families. Like his father, the state's Adjutant General, and his uncle, a former governor, Ingersoll was an alumnus of Yale Law School and a member of the Connecticut Bar Association.1 When this scion of Connecticut's legal and political elite described England's "temples of justice" in one of the nation's premier law journals, he was not referring to the Old Bailey, the Queen's Bench, or any of England's other renowned judicial venues.2 Instead, he offered readers a detailed description of the Bow Street Magistrates' Court. The magistrates' courts - or "police courts," as they were commonly called - were the bottom rung of England's criminal justice hierarchy. Their personnel spent much of their time adjudicating petty crime, mediating interpersonal conflicts, and issuing small fines for infractions of various municipal regulations"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 11, 2021) Subject Courts of first instance -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century Courts of first instance -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century Courts of first instance England -- London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021000615 ISBN 9781108863711 110886371X 9781108864039 1108864031

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