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Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment - Next Only to Death (Hardcover)
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Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment - Next Only to Death (Hardcover)
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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.
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