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Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 (Hardcover)
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Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the
experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and
destitute children passing through the early English juvenile
reformatory system. The book breaks new ground in crime research,
speaking to pressing present-day concerns around child poverty and
youth justice, and resonating with a powerful public fascination
for family history. Using innovative digital methods to unlock the
Victorian life course, the authors have reconstructed the lives,
families and neighbourhoods of 500 children living within, or at
the margins of, the early English juvenile reformatory system. Four
hundred of them were sent to reformatory and industrial schools in
the north west of England from courts around the UK over a
fifty-year period from the 1860s onwards. Young Criminal Lives is
based on one of the most comprehensive sets of official and
personal data ever assembled for a historical study of this kind.
For the first time, these children can be followed on their journey
in and out of reform and then though their adulthood and old age.
The book centres on institutions celebrated in this period for
their pioneering new approaches to child welfare and others that
were investigated for cruelty and scandal. Both were typical of the
new kind of state-certified provision offered, from the 1850s on,
to children who had committed criminal acts, or who were considered
'vulnerable' to predation, poverty and the 'inheritance' of
criminal dispositions. The notion that interventions can and must
be evaluated in order to determine 'what works' now dominates
public policy. But how did Victorian and Edwardian policy-makers
and practitioners deal with this question? By what criteria, and on
the basis of what kinds of evidence, did they judge their own
successes and failures? Young Criminal Lives ends with a critical
review of the historical rise of evidence-based policy-making
within criminal justice. It will appeal to scholars and students of
crime and penal policy, criminologists, sociologists, and social
policy researchers and practitioners in youth justice and child
protection.
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