Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law, and policy in England, 1830-1914 / Martin J. Wiener.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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1625

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Crime -- History.

Criminals -- History.

Punishment -- History.

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Introduction: criminal policy as cultural history

1 The origins of Victorianism: impulse and moralization

2 Victorian criminal policy I: reforming the law

3 Victorian criminal policy II: reformed punishment

4 A changing human image

5 Late Victorian social policy - a changing context

6 The de-moralizing of criminality

7 Prosecution and sentencing: the erosion or moral discourse

8 Disillusion with the prison

9 The outcome: social debility and positive punishment.

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ix, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm