The emergence of penal policy in victorian and Edwardian England
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The emergence of penal policy in victorian and Edwardian England
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
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"Being volume 5 of a history of English criminal law and its administration from 1750."
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This social history traces the emergence of the penal system and penal policy in Victorian and Edwardian England. It should be of interest to criminologists, social and legal historians, criminal lawyers and students of social theory.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Searching for the roots of crime: English reactions to positivism
- the socialist interpretation of crime and its Marxist connections
- the ameliorative creed. Part 2 The evolution of crime: devising indices of crime
- the English miracle. Part 3 Investing in hope: the juvenile offender
- the reformatory system. Part 4 Neutralizing the residuum: incapacitating the habitual criminal
- curing and restricting the habitual drunkard
- eugenics infiltrates the criminal law - the feeble-minded offender
- draining the reservoir of crime - the vagrant offender
- cutting off the supply of recidivism - the young adult offender. Part 5 A contested category: the political offender. Part 6 Erecting a convict system: the legacy of transportation
- the new system - its hopes and conflicts
- turning the screw of repression
- trying to recreate a balance between deterrence and reformation. Part 7 Beyond incarceration: the missing bridge
- in search of alternatives. Part 8 Clinging to the past: the equation between murder and the death penalty maintained
- the mentality of the cat and the birch. Part 9 Distributing justice: a grand neo-classical design
- evolving sentencing standards.
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