1st Edition
Crime in England 1880-1945 The rough and the criminal, the policed and the incarcerated
By Barry Godfrey
Copyright 2014
216 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. Chapters include an examination of the growth and experience of imprisonment, policing, and probation services; the recording of crime in official statistics and in public memory; and the possibilities of research created by new electronic and on-line... Read more
1. The convict's story 2. What shall we do? 3. Statistics and the 'capturing of crime' 4. From policeman state to regulatory control 5. Talking of crime 6. An ethical conversation 7. New digital media 8. Impact 9. Time, place and space 10. New technologies of policing 11.Paperwork, networks, information, connections and theories 12. A just measure of punishment: a fair measure of reformation 13. The submerged criminal justice 'state'.
Biography
Barry Godfrey is Professor of Social Justice at Liverpool University. He has twenty years of experience in researching comparative criminology, particularly international crime history; desistence studies; and longitudinal studies of offending.
