Bailey Victor - The Rise And Fall Of The Rehabilitative Ideal 1895 - 1970 - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive. Drawing on a plethora of source material such as the official papers of mandarins ministers and magistrates measures of public opinion prisoner memoirs publications of penal reform groups and prison officers the reports of Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees political opinion in both Houses of Parliament and the research of the first cadre of criminologists this book comprehensively examines a number of aspects of the British penal system including judicial sentencing law - making and the administration of legal penalties. In doing so Victor Bailey expertly weaves a complex and nuanced picture of punishment in twentieth - century England and Wales one that incorporates the enduring influence of the death penalty and will force historians to revise their interpretation of twentieth - century social and penal policy. This detailed and ground - breaking account of the rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of crime and justice and historical criminology as well as those interested in social and legal history.
Title: The Rise And Fall Of The Rehabilitative Ideal 1895 - 1970
Author(s): Bailey Victor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367077112
Pages: 568 Pages, 7 Tables, Black And White; 2 Line Drawings, Black And White; 18 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 4/11/2019
Category: Sentencing & Punishment