Artful dodgers : youth and crime in early nineteenth-century London
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Artful dodgers : youth and crime in early nineteenth-century London
（Royal Historical Society studies in history new series）
Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-186) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The early nineteenth century witnessed an increasing concern about the incidence of juvenile crime. Youthful delinquency was not new, but it was not until then that the foundations were laid for a juvenile justice system which would serve, with amendments, for the next century and more. Separate trial, separate penal provision, and an emphasis on reform rather than punishment were all enshrined in the new legislation.Heather Shore explores the processesand context of these legislative strategies, in which consideration of juvenile crime in London - with its close streets and alleys and conspicuous juxtaposition of poverty and wealth - played a major part, influencing elite perceptions of offending by children and young people. At the heart of this study is a critical consideration of the lives of young offenders. Dr Shore examines the process of offending, from the initial foray into crime, through apprehension and passage through the judicial system, to punishment and experience of penal and reform measures: prison, houses of correction, transportation and colonial emigration. HEATHER SHORE is Lecturer in Social and Cultural History, University of Portsmouth.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - inventing the juvenile delinquent
- debates - causes and explanations
- processes - home and street-life, offending, journeying into the justice system
- debates - punishment
- treatment - from the court to the prison
- treatment - transportation and reformation
- appendices - interviews and accounts with juvenile offenders, patterns of juvenile crime and punishment.
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