What would be standard punishment for a pickpocket in the early 1700s?

In the early 1700's in England, and I assume in its colonies as well, the closest thing to a law enforcement officer was a watchman. Essentially someone who called out the news, lit the street lamps, and rattled doors to make sure they were locked. They also used soldiers to enforce custom laws, run prisons, and apprehend criminals. France in this aspect was more advanced then its English speaking counterparts as they already had police officers, inspectors, and the country was divided up in to police districts or jurisdictions. England wouldn't catch up until the mid 1700's and wouldn't formalize a police force until the mid 1800's. In the North American colonies, law enforcement was provided by representatives hired by elected officials although the British military still performed some law enforcement functions. Pirating, at least that not condoned by the British crown, was a military matter for example. I imagine the same policy was carried out by the Caribbean colonies, at a minimum the appointed colony governor would be responsible for hiring watchmen.

Punishments for a pickpocket was a prison term, even if a child, and transportation to the Americas or Australia for a repeat offender. England abolished the death penalty for pickpocketing in 1808. For a pickpocket apprehended in the Caribbean I imagine a prison term, or if they were lucky and I use the term loosely, a term of hard labor as a worker on a plantation. Theft of property crimes were rare and violent crimes were even rarer. Assaulting a soldier I'm certain would be a death penalty crime. Threatening a soldier would probably get you beaten and imprisoned, if you weren't killed while being arrested.

I know thieves would have their hands cut off back then. The term for law enforcer would depend on the culture. I think the same punishment applied with the knife and probably in the Caribbean.

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Getting hands cut off is 'medieval-like torture' that had been banned by then. They're thrown in the stockades or put in jail. If they kill or maim anyone,..they're hanged. They had sheriffs. If it's on a plantation, they have overseers.