Crime, Justice, and Defoe

Jeanne Clegg, D.Phil. (1981), is a historian of English literature and culture specialising in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her books, Ruskin and Venice and Revolution Stories, and essays on and around Defoe, explore the active roles played by fiction and non-fiction in social change. She lives in Italy, where she taught at the Universities of Calabria, Pisa, L’Aquila and Ca’ Foscari Venice.

• ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction1 Other Subjectivities2 Sergeants to Take Thieves3 Old Bailey StoriesPART 1Catching Thieves in Fact and Fiction: Detecting and Apprehending2 At the Scene of the Crime I: Catching Pickpockets1 Introduction2 Catching Women Pickpockets 1720–17223 Moll Flanders Advises3.1 A Gentleman Very Rich3.2 A Key to the Clue4 Catching Male Pickpockets 1720–17225 Colonel Jack’s Apprenticeship5.1 The Hands of the Mobb5.2 In the Customs House6 Conclusion3 TAt the Scene of the Crime II: Minding the Shop1 Introduction2 TShoplifters Apprehended 1720–17223 Apprehending Moll Flanders3.1 Hawks E-y’d Journeymen3.2 Two Mis-takes3.3 The Black Part of This Story4 Conclusion4 After the Fact I: A Market for My Goods1 Introduction2 Criminal Disposal 1720–17222.1 Stopped Offering for Sale2.2 Receivers Prosecuted3 Moll Flanders’ Super-fence4 Brokers 1720–17225 Private Compositions5.1 Moll’s Governess Makes a Booty5.2 Colonel Jack’s Errand of Consequence6 Conclusion5 After the Fact II: Thieves Discovering Thieves1 Introduction2 Thieves Discovering Thieves 1720–17222.1 Shoplifters Discovered2.2 Street Robbers Discovered3 Fear of Witnesses3.1 Moll’s Joyful News3.2 Will’s Brave Gang4 ConclusionPART 2The Intricacies of Office6 What It Is to Be a Constable1 Introduction2 An Insupportable Hardship3 Constables in the Proceedings,1720–17224 Moll’s Constables4.1 The Hue and Cry after Jemy4.2 Rules for Searching4.3 A Good Substantial Kind of Man5 A Faithful Officer Humiliated6 Conclusion7 Before the Justice1 Introduction2 Justicing Business3 London Magistrates at Work, 1720–17224 Justices in Moll Flanders4.1 TA Justice Satisfied4.2 An Ancient Gentleman in Bloomsbury4.3 A Full Hearing in Foster Lane4.4 A Full Hearing in Foster Lane4.5 Fix’d Indeed5 ConclusionPART 3Proper Places of the Law: Newgate, the Old Bailey and Beyond8 Newgate: From Committal to Indictment1 Introduction2 Newgate Traffic3 Indictment4 Preventing Trial in Moll Flanders4.1 Tampering with Witnesses4.2 Jemy in the Press Yard 5 Conclusion9 The Old Bailey1 Introduction2 Arraignment2.1 Arraignments 1720–17222.2 Arraign’d, as They Call’d It3 Altercation3.1 Burglary Trials 1720–17223.2 Courage for My Tryal4 Verdict4.1 Burglary Verdicts 1720–17224.2 Small Comfort5 Allocutus5.1 Sentencing 1720–17225.2 The Dreadful Sentence6 Conclusion10 Punishing and Pardoning1 Introduction2 Pardoning Procedures3 Avoiding the Rope in Moll Flanders3.1 The Favour of Being Transported3.2 Jemy and Friends4 Avoiding the Rope in Colonel Jack4.1 The Value of a Pardon4.2 The Wonders of Providence5 ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex of Participants in Old Bailey Trials and J.P.s’ Hearings1720–1722Author and Subject Index