Patrick Colquhoun Research Paper

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THE AGE OF CONSENT Colquhoun advocated: * The licensing of public houses * The provision of a means of redeeming services, such as the tools of trade, pawned by the poor, where these were necessary for the owner to earn a living * He proposed and produced plans for a national savings bank * For unemployment relief * For the establishment of schools in poor districts * For a national board of education * For rescuing boy chimney sweeps In your own words, define his approach to crime reduction. How do you think this would have reduced crime? The period of 1674-1913 witnessed the transformation in London from a system that relied on private individuals and part-time officials, salaried officials and semi-official “thief takers” (private individuals hired to capture criminals), to a modern professional police system (A.T.Harris, Colombus, Ohio 2004. “Policing the City. Crime and legal authority in London 1780-1840).…show more content…
Historians write that Colquhoun’s innovation was a critical development which led up to Robert Peel’s “new police” some decades later. (Encyclopaedia Briticannica 2007. “Police: The Formation of the English

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