Reconstructing the criminal: culture, law, and policy in England, 1830-1914

Abstract

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