Crime And Punishment In Nineteenth Century England

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317374893

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Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain by Victor Bailey Pdf

In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of an organised, regular police, and the emergence of new secondary punishments, following the restriction in the scope of the death penalty. In place of an ill-paid parish constabulary, functioning largely through a system of rewards and common informers, professional police institutions were given the task of executing a speedy and systematic enforcement of the criminal law. In lieu of the severe and capriciously-administered capital laws, a penalty structure based on a proportionality between the gravity of crimes and the severity of punishments was erected as arguably a more effective deterrent of crime. This book, first published in 1981, examines the impact of these two important developments and casts new light on the way in which law enforcement evolved during the nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology.

Author : David W. James
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015064796199

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Crime and Punishment in Nineteenth Century England by David W. James Pdf

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 113858732X

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Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment by Victor Bailey Pdf

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of 'knowing the criminal, ' the role of 'moral panics, ' and the definition of the 'criminal classes' and 'habitual offenders'. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1569 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351001595

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Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment by Victor Bailey Pdf

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of ‘knowing the criminal,’ the role of ‘moral panics,’ and the definition of the ‘criminal classes’ and ‘habitual offenders’. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.

Author : Ross Gilfillan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834729

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Crime and Punishment in Victorian London by Ross Gilfillan Pdf

Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films. Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. Pornographers proliferate and an estimated eighty thousand prostitutes operate on the city’s streets. Even worse, the vulnerable are robbed in dark alleys or garroted, a new kind of mugging in which the victim is half-strangled from behind while being stripped of his possessions. This history takes you to nineteenth-century London’s grimy rookeries, home to thousands of the city’s poorest and most desperate residents. Explore the crime-ridden slums, flash houses, and gin palaces from a unique street-level view—and meet the people who inhabited them.

Author : Andrew Barrett,Chris Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135358631

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Crime and Punishment in England by Andrew Barrett,Chris Harrison Pdf

Designed to complement "Crime and Punishment: An Introductory History" UCL Press, 1996, this sourcebook contains documents specifically selected to illuminate major issues raised in the textbook. In the first part of the book, extracts of laws and royal, local and church records from Anglo- Saxon England to the 18th century reveal changing patterns of crime and punishment. The first sociology of English crime Harman's Caveat, 1566 as well as Henry Fielding's reform proposals of the mid-eighteenth century are included and the growing use of imprisonment is reflected in the later sections.; The second part covers the 19th century. Documents range from commentaries on the day-to-day crimes of theft, drunkenness And Assault To The Sensationalism Of Garroting And Murder. Documents charting the impressive growth of the police force are included. Criminal justice is approached through the minutiae of police charge books and newspaper column's, the personal reminiscences of magistrates, the sweeping arguments of law reformers and the pleading voices of Petitioners For Mercy. In A Chapter On Punishment, The Emotions Unleashed by public hanging and transportation can be compared with the relentless monotony of prison life.

Author : David Bentley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781852851354

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English Criminal Justice in the 19th Century by David Bentley Pdf

While it is easy to assume that the system of criminal justice in nineteenth-century England was not unlike the modern one, in many ways it was very different, particularly before the series of Victorian reforms that gradually codified a system dependent on judge-made precedent. In the first half of the century capital cases often tried almost summarily, with the accused not being adequately represented and without a system of appeal. There were also fundamental differences in procedure and in the rules of evidence, as indeed there were in attitudes towards crime and criminals. David Bentley has provided an account of the nineteenth-century criminal justice system as a whole, from the crimes committed and the classification of offences to the different courts and their procedure. He describes the stages of criminal prosecution -- committal, indictment, trial, verdict and punishment -- and the judges, lawyers and juries, highlighting significant changes in the rules of evidence during the century. He looks at the reform of the old system and assesses how far it was brought about by lawyers themselves and how far by external forces. Finally, he considers the fairness of the system, both as seen by contemporaries and in modern terms.

Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798216098942

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Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen by David Taylor Pdf

This detailed study of the criminal justice system in Victorian Britain highlights the dilemmas facing those responsible for administering justice and protecting society from "the criminal." Encompassing the crimes of the never-identified Jack the Ripper, as well as many other equally intriguing criminals, Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen: Crime and Punishment in Victorian Britain is a detailed study of the criminal justice system as it evolved from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the outbreak of the "Great War" in 1914. The first section of the book considers crimes and criminals, while the second looks at the ways in which the Victorians sought to explain this deviant behavior. The third section focuses on the creation of criminals through the work of the constabulary and the courts. The final section considers the changing ways in which criminals were punished as the scaffold gave way to the prison as the dominant means of punishment. A brief introduction and conclusion set Victorian crime into its broader sociopolitical context and relates the issues society grappled with then to those of the present day.

Author : John Jacob Tobias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Criminology
ISBN : OCLC:472127221

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Nineteenth-century Crime in England by John Jacob Tobias Pdf

Author : John Jacob Tobias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036790462

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Nineteenth-century Crime in England: Prevention and Punishment by John Jacob Tobias Pdf

Author : William Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Alcoholism and crime
ISBN : BL:A0022062468

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Crime in England & Wales in the Nineteenth Century by William Hoyle Pdf

Author : Helen Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317669340

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Crime in England 1815-1880 by Helen Johnston Pdf

Crime in England, 1815-1880 provides a unique insight into views on crime and criminality and the operation of the criminal justice system in England from the early to the late nineteenth century. This book examines the perceived problem and causes of crime, views about offenders and the consequences of these views for the treatment of offenders in the criminal justice system. The book explores the perceived causes of criminality, as well as concerns about particular groups of offenders, such as the 'criminal classes' and the 'habitual offender', the female offender and the juvenile criminal. It also considers the development of policing, the systems of capital punishment and the transportation of offenders overseas, as well as the evolution of both local and convict prison systems. The discussion primarily investigates those who were drawn into the criminal justice system and the attitudes towards and mechanisms to address crime and offenders. The book draws together original research by the author to locate these broader developments and provides detailed case studies illuminating the lives of those who experienced the criminal justice system and how these changes were experienced in provincial England. With an emphasis on the penal system and case studies on offenders' lives and on provincial criminal justice, this book will be useful to academics and students interested in criminal justice, history and penology, as well as being of interest to the general reader.

Author : George F. E. Rudé
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037928418

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Criminal and Victim by George F. E. Rudé Pdf

This social history not only studies crime and punishment in early 19th-century England, but also draws on higher court records to reconstruct case histories of the actual people involved in crime: the prisoners and the victims. The book focuses on Sussex, Gloucester, and Middlesec counties, each in its own way typical of developments in early British industrial society between 1800 and 1850. By examining crime as a social as well as a legal phenomenon, the book casts new light on the different urban and rural patterns of crime, the influence of economic and political factors, and the social profiles of both criminals and victims.

Author : John Briggs,Christopher Harrison,Angus McInnes,David Vincent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135369750

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Crime And Punishment In England by John Briggs,Christopher Harrison,Angus McInnes,David Vincent Pdf

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102111314X

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Crime in England & Wales in the Nineteenth Century by Anonymous Pdf

This study of crime in 19th century England and Wales is a fascinating look at the roots of the modern criminal justice system. Based on extensive data analysis, the book examines crime rates, types of crimes, and punishment, as well as the social and economic factors that contributed to criminal behavior. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.