01660nam a2200229 4500 373431 373431 20080108u y0pory50 ba eng Police and the prevention of crime commerce, temptation and the corruption of the body politic, from Fielding to Colquhoun Francis Dodsworth Resumo inserto no próprio artigo. Examining the conception and legitimization of systems for the prevention of crime in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in the work of Henry Fielding and Patrick Colquhoun, I argue that the conceptualization of the causes and effects of crime as stemming from social processes rather than individual character is central to the history of the social. Examination of the work of eighteenth-century theorists of police demonstrates a particular understanding of links between economic, social and political change. Fielding and Colquhoun argued that crime was a public problem because, through imitation, vice spread like disease throughout the body politic, corrupting the state and leaving it weak and liable to dissolution. To prevent crime was to prevent corruption spreading by removing temptations into vice. Oxford May 2007 Vol. 47, n. 3 British Journal of Criminology (The) 0007-0955 p. 439-454 POLÍTICA CRIMINAL POLÍTICA POLICIAL ORDEM SOCIAL ANÁLISE SOCIAL POLÍCIA E COMUNIDADE DODSWORTH Francis 0 PJ_28209_000000000000000 2022-06-06 401212 PJ PJ PJ28209 2022-06-06 0 AP