TY - JOUR
AU - Hawkins, Angus
AB -  BOOK REVIEWS In a work of immense scholarship, Beattie makes his case well: not least because of his ability to get down to the very level of action itself, to see changes coming not from the top down through some grand blueprint for reform, but from adjustments at the interfaces of authority, property and crime themselves. Changes, for example, were taking place in the efficiency expectations from the parish constabulary, in the use of thief-takers, in local acts of regulation and in the forms of punishment imposed. Essentially what he sees as clearly emerging was the `conviction that terror was not sufficient in itself ­ that in London, where so much crime was relatively minor and so much of it committed by women or by children too young to be executed in large numbers, terror has it limits. Capital punishment needed at least to be supplemented by more moderate sanctions and more effective policing and prosecution' (pp. 474­5). In coming to such a position, Beattie boldly claims that London's authorities were anticipating the `modernisation' of thinking later associated with Beccaria's seminal work of 1764: in particular that punishment should be adjusted to fit the crime. Beattie is able 
TI - England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question
JF - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/118.475.156
DA - 2003-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/england-s-disgrace-j-s-mill-and-the-irish-question-fTNn4H3Kx3
SP - 156
EP - 157
VL - 118
IS - 475
DP - DeepDyve
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