Law Makers and Enforcers

This is a new book packed with fascinating facts about British Law Makers & Enforcers with a large and interesting section on Victorian Policing and associated stories. It includes graphic accounts of life, crime and poverty in Queen Victoria's British cities with particular emphasis on Manchester and first hand reports from one of the great and genuine detectives of that era, Jerome Caminada. It also invites comparisons with Caminada's stories and those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and...
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This is a new book packed with fascinating facts about British Law Makers & Enforcers with a large and interesting section on Victorian Policing and associated stories. It includes graphic accounts of life, crime and poverty in Queen Victoria's British cities with particular emphasis on Manchester and first hand reports from one of the great and genuine detectives of that era, Jerome Caminada. It also invites comparisons with Caminada's stories and those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his fictional detective character Sherlock Holmes. Mention is also made of the increasing threat of terrorism to national safety and the advances of modern technology and transportation to try to counter crime and disorder. The book however, begins at the birth of law and order and confirms the first objectives to create a primitive code of common law devised by the Anglo-Saxon ruler King Alfred the Great from AD 871-900 - with the introduction of 'Folk Moot' or 'Moot Law.' It continues to illustrate the vital role that a number of important radical reformers have played over the centuries to help shape the British legal system including the Magna Carter, Justices of the Peace, Watchmen and Special Constables. This work continued with further and extensive progress under brothers' Henry and John Fielding's supervision. It included the introduction of Robin Redbreast's, the Bow Street Runners, dealing with the Jacobite Uprising, and the notorious duties of the 'Blind Beak.' Robert Peel's introduction of the Police Act in 1829 and his nine points of law fully revised the existing legal network and the book examines the birth of the controversial 'Peelers' and the growing threat from 'Dynamiters' and 'Foreign Agitators' to the new detectives offices at Scotland Yard, and at major public facilities.