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Borstal Girl

Author : Eileen MacKenney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849834768
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Borstal Girl written by Eileen MacKenney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By the time she was fourteen she had survived the Blitz, a spell in a care home and her mother's death, but she craved excitement, embarking on shoplifting sprees, liberating fur coats and rolling toffs up west with notorious 'queen of thieves' Shirley Pitts. Eileen soon found herself in borstal, put to work building roads like a navvy. Known as 'Kill', she had a reputation as one of the hardest woman behind bars. Then, in the 1950s she met and married career criminal Harry 'Big H' MacKenney, and she was soon fraternising with the toughest, most colourful characters in the London underworld. She went on to have four children, whom she loved and protected, but life was extremely tough and Eileen fell back into her old ways, thieving and fighting to make ends meet. The 1970s brought police corruption and brutality to Eileen's doorstep. When Harry was banged up, Eileen carried on the 'family business' alone and found herself on the wrong side of the law - again. Yet throughout a catalogue of trouble this defiant London bad girl of the old school always kept her defiant sense of humour. Borstal Girlis a true story of shocking violence and survival that pulls no punches, but it is also a secret criminal history of a London long past. There is no other female memoir like it.

The English Prison and Borstal Systems

Author : Lionel W. Fox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136266380
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The English Prison and Borstal Systems written by Lionel W. Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1952, this is an account of the prison and Borstal systems in England and Wales after the Criminal Justice Act 1948, with a historical introduction and an examination of the principles of imprisonment as a legal punishment.

Prisons and Borstals

Author : Great Britain. Home Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Prisons and Borstals written by Great Britain. Home Office and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Girl Offenders Aged 17 to 20 Years

Author : Jean Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Girl Offenders Aged 17 to 20 Years written by Jean Davies and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anything Goes Girl

Author : Barry Knister
Publisher : BHC Press/Open Window
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anything Goes Girl written by Barry Knister and published by BHC Press/Open Window. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Brenda Contay doesn’t look for trouble—but it keeps finding her... When Brenda Contay makes it big on local TV as WDIG’s Lightning Rod reporter, everything seems to be turning around for her. The only problem is her success comes from her butt looking good in a pair of Levis. When an old lover drowns off a tiny island in the Pacific, Brenda quits her job to learn the truth—because all-state swimmers like Vince don’t just drown. Drawn into a scandal of global proportions involving one of the ten richest men in America, Brenda’s chance of living to break the story is next to zero. But that’s the one thing about the anything goes girl: she hates to lose.

Report of the Conference of Educational Associations

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Conference of Educational Associations written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cries For Help

Author : Joanna Kozubska
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1909976059
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Cries For Help written by Joanna Kozubska and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cries for Help opens a window on the closed world of Holloway, other women’s prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s. This was an era when personal style and charismatic leadership was the order of the day for governors and prison officers, before ideas of ‘new management’, when problems were solved using personal initiatives. It catalogues the daily lives of women prisoners, their anxieties, fears and preoccupations. The book looks at a lost segment of the population, hundreds of women who were hidden from view, lacking a voice, part of a system for men that hardly knew what to do with them. It contains stories about murderers and other serious offenders and looks at their personal correspondence, including that of moors murderer Myra Hindley. ‘I hope that [the prison] authorities in particular will read and reflect on her brutally honest, human and very relevant book’: Lord David Ramsbotham

The Use of Imprisonment

Author : Seán McConville
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100096812X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Use of Imprisonment written by Seán McConville and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to The Use of Imprisonment focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various aspects of penal policy – administrative, organizational, staffing, legal, philosophical. The volume provides a valuable introduction to penal policy and administration, and to some of the central issues in the penological debate at the time. Influenced mainly by events in the United States, interest had been growing in England in prisoners’ legal rights and in the laws affecting imprisonment. This complemented an increasing mood of scepticism among many psychologists, sociologists and other social scientists in relation to the aims and methods of reformatory imprisonment. Such thinking, although still largely divergent and amorphous, had gone far towards undermining the penological axioms and aspirations of the last few generations. The precise direction of new policy was still unclear, but the essays in this book make various informed suggestions as to the future, and also provide an examination of the present state of several key areas. They emphasise the failure of the treatment model of imprisonment, while at the same time recognising the need to be cautious about breaking down the prison walls and bringing treatment ‘into the community’.

Schizophrenia: the Bearded Lady Disease Volume One

Author : J. Michael Mahoney
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463445091
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Schizophrenia: the Bearded Lady Disease Volume One written by J. Michael Mahoney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has long searched for the cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 47 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and confusion lie at the root of all mental illness, as difficult to comprehend as this idea may be. The book itself consists of 639 quotations, from a variety of sources, all of which point to the unshakable truth of this hypothesis. This is a fixed law of nature, unassailable and constantly operative in every case. No other species but man is afflicted with mental illness because no other species has either the intellectual power to repress their sexual feelings nor the motivation to do so. The disease we call schizophrenia is but an arbitrary name, which is used to designate the end-stage of a process beginning with a slight neurosis. The more severe the bisexual conflict and confusion in the individual, the more severe the degree of the mental illness which is experienced. Several other investigators in the past have reached this same conclusion, but unfortunately their wisdom went largely unheeded. Hopefully this book will remedy that ill-advised neglect.

Tomboys and bachelor girls

Author : Rebecca Jennings
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130289
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Tomboys and bachelor girls written by Rebecca Jennings and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic and widely ignored as taboo by mainstream society, lesbians nevertheless recognised and accepted their same-sex desire and sought out women like themselves. Challenging the conventional picture of the post-war decades as years of austerity and conservative femininity, this book traces the emergence of a vibrant lesbian social scene in Britain, centred on the metropolitan nightclubs of post-war London, but also developing across the country, through lesbian magazines and social organisations. This fascinating book brings to life the rich history of post-war lesbian culture for the scholarly and general reader alike.

Accounting for Aggression

Author : Gerda Siann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040090745
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Aggression written by Gerda Siann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The despair and incomprehension that often seem to be the only possible response to acts of aggression and violence have led to attempts by academics and writers from a wide variety of backgrounds to understand and explain such behaviour. The concern and anxiety that is felt by many people about this subject is such that some of their accounts – notably by Konrad Lorenz, Desmond Morris, Robert Ardrey, and Anthony Storr – have become popular and even best-selling books. Originally published in 1985, Accounting for Aggression provides a comprehensive synthesis and assessment of these writings and other contemporary theory and research on aggression and violence at the time. The author presents a variety of accounts of aggression, drawing on original work in the areas of biology, sociobiology, ethology, psychology and sociology. Each account is evaluated according both to the criteria of scientific methodology and to the extent to which it illuminates our understanding and appears to have a lasting explanatory value. In the last chapter the author presents an integrative approach to the subject area which synthesizes those findings for which there appears to be substantial empirical support, within a framework of the meaning that aggressive and violent behaviour offers to those who carry it out. Accounting for Aggression will be of great value to students and practitioners in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work and education. Furthermore, it will be welcomed by interested members of the general public who are concerned with issues such as whether or not violence is inherent in human nature, the extent to which interpersonal violence is related to group violence, and the extent to which violence in the media affects violent behaviour.

Adolescent Girls in Approved Schools

Author : Helen J. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136268561
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Adolescent Girls in Approved Schools written by Helen J. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume I of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. Originally published in 1969, Adolescent Girls in Approved Schools looks at the subject of delinquency in relation to women and girls.

Bad Girls

Author : Caitlin Davies
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473647754
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Bad Girls written by Caitlin Davies and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'Davies's absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity - along with its serious inquiry' SUNDAY TIMES '[A] revealing account of the jail's 164-year history' DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review 'Insightful and thought-provoking and makes for a ripping good read' JEREMY CORBYN 'A much-needed and balanced history' OBSERVER 'Davies explores how society has dealt with disobedient women - from suffragettes to refugees to women seeking abortions - for decades, and how they've failed to silence those who won't go down without a fight' STYLIST Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed 'terror to evil-doers' which, until its closure in 2016, was western Europe's largest women's prison. First built in 1852 as a House of Correction, Holloway's women have come from all corners of the UK - whether a patriot from Scotland, a suffragette from Huddersfield, or a spy from the Isle of Wight - and from all walks of life - socialites and prostitutes, sporting stars and nightclub queens, refugees and freedom fighters. They were imprisoned for treason and murder, for begging, performing abortions and stealing clothing coupons, for masquerading as men, running brothels and attempting suicide. In Bad Girls, Caitlin Davies tells their stories and shows how women have been treated in our justice system over more than a century, what crimes - real or imagined - they committed, who found them guilty and why. It is a story of victimization and resistance; of oppression and bravery. From the women who escaped the hangman's noose - and those who didn't - to those who escaped Holloway altogether, Bad Girls is a fascinating look at how disobedient and defiant women changed not only the prison service, but the course of history.

Criminal Children

Author : Emma Watkins
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526738090
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Children written by Emma Watkins and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens. How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb their criminal tendencies successful? From 1820–1920, ideas about youth and transgression changed dramatically in the United Kingdom. Criminal Children delves into this period to uncover fascinating insight into the neglected subject of childhood crime and punishment, and the “invention” of juvenile delinquency. Drawing on the life stories of twenty-four “bad seeds,” true crime journalists Emma Watkins and Barry Godfrey explore every aspect of these young and desperate lives: their experiences in prisons, reformatory schools, industrial schools, borstals, and female factories; their trials and criminal petitions; and the harrowing transport to Australia—considered the last resort for adult convicts and children alike. Including resources for researching one’s own criminal forebears, Criminal Children is “an interesting book to anybody who wants to know more about juvenile offenders in England” (Nell Darby, author of Life on the Victorian Stage).

Report of the Indian Jails Committee, 1919-1920

Author : India. Jail Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Indian Jails Committee, 1919-1920 written by India. Jail Committee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Medical Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1562 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crime and Punishment in Britain

Author : Nigel Walker
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 1412843677
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Britain written by Nigel Walker and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system defined, accounted for, and disposed of offenders. As an early work in criminology, it focuses on differences between, and changes in, the views held by legislators, lawyers, philosophers, and the man in the street on the topic of crime and punishment. Walker is interested in the extent to which their views reflect the facts established and the theories propounded by psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists. The confusion between criminologists and penal reformers was initially encouraged by criminologists themselves, many of whom were penal reformers. Strictly speaking, penal reform, according to Walker, was a spare-time occupation for criminologists, just as canvassing for votes is an ancillary task for political scientists. The difference is that the criminologists spare-time occupation is more likely to take a "moral" form, and when it does so it is more likely to interfere with what should be purely criminological thoughts. The machinery of justice involves the interaction of human beings in their roles of victim, offender, policeman, judge, supervisor, or custodian, and there must be a place for human sympathy in the understanding, and still more in the treatment, of individual offenders. This book is concerned with the efficiency of the system as a means to these ends. One of the main reasons why penal institutions have continued to develop more slowly than other social services is that they are a constant battlefield between emotions and prejudices. This is a great empirical study; against which the policy-maker and criminologist can measure progress or regression in British criminals and punishments. Nigel Walker is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology and former director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books, including A Man without Loyalties; Behavior and Misbehavior; and Aggravation, Mitigation, and Mercy in English Criminal Justice.