Add to ORKGCan the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by examining an historical case-study: the system of private prosecutions that prevailed in England prior to the introduction of the police. Using a model of the market for crime, I examine why this system came under strain during the Industrial Revolution, and how private associations were able to emerge to internalize the externalities that caused the private system to generate too little deterrence. The model and historical evidence suggest that these private order institutions were partially successful in meliorating the problem of crime in a period when Public Choice considerations precluded the introduction of a professional police force
An important question in the economic study of enforcement is the appropriate, and the actual, divis...
The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite i...
Until recently, English law was distinctive because it provided for the police, rather than public p...
Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by examining an historica...
Abstract Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by analyzing an ...
In early 19th century England there was no professional police force and most prosecutions were priv...
Historians of English criminal justice administration have long asserted that criminal prosecution i...
An overview of the development of private prosecution into police prosecution in England 1750-1850, ...
By the middle of the nineteenth century, professional policing of a recognizably modern character wa...
Rapid commercial development in Britain by 1800 inspired legislation rendering ‘white-collar’ crimes...
Increased standardization was a by-product of technical innovations during the Industrial Revolution...
Amongst the considerable and valuable canon of work on the introduction of public uniformed police s...
The eighteenth century is often thought of as the century that modernized Europe. The development an...
This thesis analyses policing and crime control in nineteenth-century England, through a case study ...
Examines why England and subsequently other English speaking countries were reluctant to adopt a gov...
An important question in the economic study of enforcement is the appropriate, and the actual, divis...
The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite i...
Until recently, English law was distinctive because it provided for the police, rather than public p...
Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by examining an historica...
Abstract Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by analyzing an ...
In early 19th century England there was no professional police force and most prosecutions were priv...
Historians of English criminal justice administration have long asserted that criminal prosecution i...
An overview of the development of private prosecution into police prosecution in England 1750-1850, ...
By the middle of the nineteenth century, professional policing of a recognizably modern character wa...
Rapid commercial development in Britain by 1800 inspired legislation rendering ‘white-collar’ crimes...
Increased standardization was a by-product of technical innovations during the Industrial Revolution...
Amongst the considerable and valuable canon of work on the introduction of public uniformed police s...
The eighteenth century is often thought of as the century that modernized Europe. The development an...
This thesis analyses policing and crime control in nineteenth-century England, through a case study ...
Examines why England and subsequently other English speaking countries were reluctant to adopt a gov...
An important question in the economic study of enforcement is the appropriate, and the actual, divis...
The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite i...
Until recently, English law was distinctive because it provided for the police, rather than public p...