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Reconstructing the Criminal

Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830–1914

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Paperback, 404 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 1994
ISBN13: 9780521478823
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This ambitious and imaginative work interprets criminal justice history by relating it to intellectual and cultural history. Starting from the assumption that policies and statutes originate in a society's values and norms, the author skilfully and persuasively demonstrates how changes in criminal law and penal practice were related to the changing values of early, mid, and late Victorian and Edwardian society. Wiener traces changes in the criminal justice system by examining the treatment of offenders. During the Victorian period the system became more punitive and was then reformed in line with welfarist thinking. Wiener's wide-ranging discussion of issues, most notably of free will versus determinism, sheds light on a broad range of Victorian history, beyond crime and punishment.

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ISBN13:9780521478823
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:404

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Introduction: criminal policy as cultural change; 1. The origins of Victorianism: impulse and motivation; 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 demoralizing of criminality; 7. Prosecution and sentencing: the erosion of moral discourse; 8. Disillusion with the prison; 9. The outcome: social debility and positive punishment; Index

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