亨利·菲尔丁不仅是18世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人,而且是英国近代警察制度改革的首创者。鉴于伦敦犯罪猖獗、传统治安制度陷入困境的状况,他在强调犯罪受综合社会因素影响的同时,倡导改善社会环境及创设贫民习艺所解决贫困减少犯罪,重视犯罪预防及建立职业化的治安队伍,提高治安协作和信息沟通。与当时英国政府解决犯罪问题的举措相比,菲尔丁的治安思想和实践具有特殊的社会价值。 Henry Fielding was not only the founder of 18th century British realist novels, but also the pioneer of the modern British police system reform. In view of the rampant crime in London and the troubled state of the traditional security system, while emphasizing that crime is affected by integrated social factors, he advocated improving the social environment and creating poor people’s learning abilities to solve the problem of reducing poverty and crime, attaching importance to crime prevention and establishing a professional public security contingent, Improve law and order coordination and information communication. Compared with the then British government’s solution to the crime problem, Fielding’s public security thought and practice had special social values.