Books

 

The English Court in the Reign of George I, Cambridge University Press, 1967; reproduced 2008.

 

(ed.) Attitudes towards Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada, 1830-1850: a Documentary Study, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, 1977.

 

Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, 1986.

 

Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror, Oxford University Press, 2001, paperback, 2003.

 

The First English Detectives; the Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback, 2014.

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Articles and chapters in books

 

"The Court of George I in English Politics, 1717-1720", English Historical Review, vol. 81, 1966.

 

"Towards a History of Crime in Eighteenth-Century England: a Note on Indictments", in Paul Fritz and David Williams (eds), The Triumph of Culture: Eighteenth Century Perspectives Toronto, 1972.

 

"The Pattern of Crime in England, 1660-1800", Past and Present, no. 62, 1974, pp. 47-95 reprinted in Crime and Justice in American History: the Colonies and early Republic, ed. Eric Monkkonen, 2 vols, Westport, Conn., 1991.

 

"The Criminality of Women in Eighteenth-century England", Journal of Social History, vol. VIII, 1975, pp. 80-116 reprinted in D. Kelly Weisberg (ed.), Women and the Law: the Social Historical Perspective, Cambridge, Mass., 1982; and in Robert P. Weiss, The Social History of Crime, Policing and Punishment Aldershot, 1999.

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"Crime and the Courts in Surrey, 1736-1753", in J. S. Cockburn (ed.), Crime in England, 1550-1800 London, 1977.

 

"Judicial Records and the Measurement of Crime in 18th century England", in Louis A. Knafla (ed.), Crime and Justice in Europe and Canada, Waterloo, 1981.

 

"Administering Justice without Police: Criminal Trial Procedure in Eighteenth-century England" in Rita Donelan (ed.), The Maintenance of Order in Society, Ottawa, 1982.

 

"Violence and Society in Early Modern England", in Anthony N. Doob and Edward L. Greenspan (eds.) Perspectives in Criminal Law, Toronto, 1984.

 

"London Jurors in the 1690s", in J.S. Cockburn and Thomas A. Green (eds.), Twelve Good Men and True: the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800, Princeton University Press, 1988.

 

"The Royal Pardon and Criminal Procedure in Early-Modern England", Historical Papers, 1988.

 

"Criminal sanctions in England since 1500", in Martin L. Friedland (ed), Sanctions and Rewards in the Legal System: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, University of Toronto Press, 1989.

 

"Criminal Trial in the Reign of William III", in Peter Maccubbin (ed), The Age of William III and Mary II: Power, Politics and Patronage, 1688-1702 (New York, 1989)

 

"Crime, Policing, and Punishment in England, 1550-1850: a bibliographical essay", in Jane Gladstone, Richard Ericson and Clifford Shearing (eds), Criminology: a Reader's Guide, Toronto, Centre of Criminology, 1991.

 

"Garrow for the Defence", History Today 41, February, 1991.

 

"Scales of Justice: Defense Counsel in the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries", Law and History Review 9; 2 Fall 1991. Awarded the Walter D. Love Prize, 1992; and the Donald W. Sutherland Prize, 1992

 

"London Crime and the Making of the `Bloody Code', 1689-1718" in Timothy Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker (eds.), `Stilling the Grumbling Hive': the Response to Social and Economic Problems in England, 1688-1750, Gloucester: Allan Sutton, 1992.

 

"The Cabinet and the Management of Death at Tyburn after the Revolution of 1689", in Lois Schwoerer (ed.), The Revolution of 1688-89: Changing Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

 

"English Penal Ideas and the Origins of Imprisonment", in Wendy Barnes (ed.), Taking Responsibility: Citizen Involvement in the Criminal Justice System, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, 1995.

 

"Crime and Inequality in eighteenth-century London", in John Hagan and Ruth D. Peterson (eds.), Crime and Inequality, Stanford University Press, 1995.

 

"Women and Crime in Augustan London," in Valerie Frith (ed.), Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, Coach House Press, 1995.

 

“Charles Hitchen” and “William Garrow” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

 

“The Bow Street Runners” in Clive Emsley and Haia Shpayer-Makov (eds.), The Detective in History, Ashgate, 2005.

 

“Sir John Fielding and Public Justice: The Bow Street Magistrate’s Court, 1754-1780,” Law and History Review, 25; 1 Spring 2007.

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Festschrifts

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Greg Smith, Allyson May, and Simon Devereaux, eds., Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of John M. Beattie (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Centre of Criminology, 1998)

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Norma Landau, ed., Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

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Fellowships and Research Grants

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• Ehrman Studentship, King's College, Cambridge University, 1957-61

• Canada Council Senior Fellowships, 1966-67, 1973-74

• Canada Council Research Grants, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73

• Research grant, Federal Ministry of the Solicitor General, 1974-75

• SSHRCC Research Grants, 1980, 1982, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1986-88, 1989, 1991-5, 1996-9, 2001-4

• SSHRCC Leave Fellowship, 1980-81

• Killam Senior Research Fellowship, 1979-81

• Connaught Fund grant, University of Toronto Law School, 1984-88

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987-88

• Connaught Senior Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1992-93