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Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective

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  • © 2008

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  1. Helen Johnston

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control

    1. Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control

      • Helen Johnston
      Pages 1-11

  4. Penal Policy, Prison Practice and Discourses on Offenders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century

      • Helen Johnston
      Pages 77-94

    3. The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchill’s Prison Reforms

      • Jamie Bennett
      Pages 95-114

    4. The Paradox of the ‘Respectable Offender’: Responding to the Problem of White-Collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian England

      • John P. Locker
      Pages 115-134

    5. Controlling the ‘Hopeless’: Re-Visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c. 1870–1920

      • Bronwyn Morrison
      Pages 135-157

    6. Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Responses to ‘The Problem’ of Juvenile Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

      • Heather Shore
      Pages 158-176

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 242-269
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About this book

Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societies from the early-nineteenth century.

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"This book is an ideal resource for students and scholars of late Victorian/early Edwardian penality . it also sets out an ambitious plan to provide a theoretical framework through which to assess these experiences, one which attempts to make new contributions to debates about the cultural importance of prison and the continuing relevance of a concept of social control." - Dr Sarah Armstrong, Senior Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow University, UK

"This fascinating collection contains essays by experienced and emerging scholars which explore some neglected topics of crime history. Yet it is those ignored topics which are today producing our most valuable insights into the history of offending and crime control." - Professor Barry Godfrey, Director, Research Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, UK.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Helen Johnston

About the editor

SARAH ANDERSON is a policy advisor at the Department of Corrections, New Zealand ANETTE BALLINGER is Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University, UK ALYSON BROWN is Reader in History at Edge Hill University, UK JAMIE BENNETT is a prison manager. He is currently undertaking a PhD with Edinburgh University, UK MICHAEL FIDDLER is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, UK HELEN JOHNSTON is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull, UK JOHN P LOCKER is a senior researcher with New Zealand Police BRONWYN MORRISON is Senior Research Advisor for the Research, Evaluation and Modelling Unit at the Ministry of Justice, New Zealand JOHN PRATT is Professor of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand HEATHER SHORE is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK TONY WARD is Reader in Law at the University of Hull, UK ABIGAIL WILLS is a postdoctoral Career Development Fellow in History at Brasenose College, Oxford, UK

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