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‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948

Author : Ben Bethell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000648230
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 written by Ben Bethell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879–1948 investigates the origins of the star class in the years leading up to its establishment in 1879, and charts its subsequent development during the late-Victorian, Edwardian, and interwar decades. To what extent did the star class serve to shield ‘gentleman convicts’ from their social inferiors and allow them a measure of privilege? What was the precise nature of the ‘contamination’ by which they and other ‘accidental criminals’ were believed to be threatened? And why, for the first twenty years of its existence, were first offenders convicted of ‘unnatural crimes’ barred from the division? To explore these questions, the book considers the making and implementation of penal policy by senior civil servants and prison administrators, and the daily life and work of prisoners at policy’s receiving end. It re-examines evolving notions of criminality, the competing aims of reformation and deterrence, and the role and changing nature of prison labour. Along the way, readers will encounter an array of star men, including arsonists, abortionists, sex offenders and reprieved murderers, disgraced bankers, light-fingered postmen, bent solicitors, and perjuring policemen. Taking a fresh look at English prison history through converging lenses of class, sexuality, and labour, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 will be of great interest to penal historians and historical criminologists, and to scholars working on related aspects of modern British history.

The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663889
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970 written by Victor Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive. Drawing on a plethora of source material, such as the official papers of mandarins, ministers, and magistrates, measures of public opinion, prisoner memoirs, publications of penal reform groups and prison officers, the reports of Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees, political opinion in both Houses of Parliament and the research of the first cadre of criminologists, this book comprehensively examines a number of aspects of the British penal system, including judicial sentencing, law-making, and the administration of legal penalties. In doing so, Victor Bailey expertly weaves a complex and nuanced picture of punishment in twentieth-century England and Wales, one that incorporates the enduring influence of the death penalty, and will force historians to revise their interpretation of twentieth-century social and penal policy. This detailed and ground-breaking account of the rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of crime and justice and historical criminology, as well as those interested in social and legal history.

Time and Punishment

Author : Nicola Carr
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031121082
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Time and Punishment written by Nicola Carr and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.

Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective

Author : H. Johnston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023058344X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective written by H. Johnston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societies from the early-nineteenth century.

History Of Corporal Punishment

Author : George Ryley Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317846648
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book History Of Corporal Punishment written by George Ryley Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This is a wide-ranging study of flagellation in all its aspects - disciplinary, religious, educational and erotic. It presents a mass of detailed information on the various forms of flogging administered through the ages to thieves, prostitutes, soldiers, sailors, heretics, penitents, slaves, servants, schoolboys and schoolgirls. Scott's aim was to present the complete story of flagellation and its attendant mixture of cruelty, eroticism, superstition, voluptuousness and persecution. All the historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological aspects of the practice are examined, in order to understand the full significance of flagellation as a social phenomenon. The physical, psychological and pathological effects of corporal punishment, including the effects of flagellation on sexual health, are also analysed. The book is divided into four parts - the psychology of flagellation, penal flagellation, religious flagellation and the case for and against corporal punishment - with illustrations and a useful bibliography. Written in 1938, this remains an authoritative work on the subject.

Prisons and Prison Systems

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313060428
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Prisons and Prison Systems written by Mitchel P. Roth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons have undoubtedly changed over the years, as have penal practices in general, though more so in some countries than others. Prisons and prison systems have long been an overlooked part of criminal justice research, and as a result, limited material is available on many institutions. This comprehensive encyclopedia provides a historical overview of institutions and systems around the world, as well as penal theories, prisoner culture and life, and notable prisoners and personnel. Readers will find a plethora of information including material on such famous prisons as the Tower of London and Alcatraz, as well as on such topics as boot camps and parole. Other entries include Devil's Island, supermaximum prisons, Nelson Mandela, Pennsylvania system, and Amnesty International. Numerous appendixes list famous prisoners, prison museums, prison slang, and more.

English Society and the Prison

Author : Alyson Brown
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830177
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book English Society and the Prison written by Alyson Brown and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history analyses a period in which the modern prison faced serious challenges both on practical & philosophical grounds. These included the use of prison to victimise the poor, the disaffected & political activists, & the failure to establish the prison as a satisfactory means of punishment.

Penal Servitude

Author : Helen Johnston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228009650
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Penal Servitude written by Helen Johnston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment – short of death – in the criminal justice system, and they remained in place for nearly a century. Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude during this time. Helen Johnston, Barry Godfrey, and David Cox detail the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1850s and the building of the prison estate to the classification of prisoners within it. Exploring life in the convict prison through the experiences of the people who were subjected to it, the authors shed light on various details such as prison diet, education, and labour. What they find reveals the internal regimes; the everyday endurances, conformity, resistance, and rule breaking of convicts; and the interactions with the warders, medical officers, and governors that shaped daily life in the system. Reconstructing the life histories of hundreds of convict prisoners from detailed prison records, criminal registers, census data, and personal correspondence, Penal Servitude illuminates the lives of those who experienced long-term imprisonment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Long Sexual Revolution

Author : Hera Cook
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191530891
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Long Sexual Revolution written by Hera Cook and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. Most sexual activity had major economic and social costs, the most fundamental of which was the physical cost of children upon women's bodies. Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception became a viable option in the early twentieth century. The book charts the resulting slow relaxation of attitudes to sexuality and the remaking of heterosexual physical behaviour, culminating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes

Author : R. Yelyr
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473391857
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Whip And The Rod - An Account Of Corporal Punishment Among All Nations And For All Purposes written by R. Yelyr and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whip and the stick has been used for much of human history, this fascinating history reveals why corporal punishment seems to be such a common thing among all cultures through much of recorded history.

Penal Discipline, Reformatory Projects and the English Prison Commission 1895-1939

Author : William James Forsythe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Penal Discipline, Reformatory Projects and the English Prison Commission 1895-1939 written by William James Forsythe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses changing attitudes to prison and punishment between 1895 and 1939, a period which saw major advances in disciplinary morality, as it also did in gender and racial equality.

Into the Heart of the Fire

Author : James K. Hopkins
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731270
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Into the Heart of the Fire written by James K. Hopkins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experience of the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and places them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework.

Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work

Author : Nigel Parton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134799225
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work written by Nigel Parton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work has two inter-related themes. First to account for and analyse current changes in social work and secondly, to assess how far recent developments in social theory can contribute to their interpretation. Representing the work of a range of academics all involved in research and teaching in relation to social work, it considers issues of central significance to everyone interested in the theory, policy, and practice of social work.

“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties

Author : Tony Lidington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000686191
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book “Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties written by Tony Lidington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as well as French mime and Italian commedia dell’arte roots. • Theatre history is an essential part of theatre and drama courses across the UK and would be recommended reading. • There is no comparable book which makes critical analysis of British pierrot troupes and concert parties in existence – the only ones that do exist on the specific topic are written as reminiscence and anecdote.

Inter-war Penal Policy and Crime in England

Author : A. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137306173
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Inter-war Penal Policy and Crime in England written by A. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the 1932 prison riot in Dartmoor Convict Prison. One of the most notorious and destructive in English prison history, it received unprecedented public and media attention. This book examines the causes, events and consequences to shed new light on prison cultures and violence as well as penal policy and public attitudes.

Sexual Blackmail

Author : Angus McLaren
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674009240
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Blackmail written by Angus McLaren and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality--armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss. Charting the rise and fall of sexual taboos and the shifting tides of shame, McLaren enables us to survey evolving sexual practices and discussions. He has mined the archives to tell his story through a host of fascinating characters and cases, from male bounders to designing women, from badger games to gold diggers, from victimless crimes to homosexual outing. He shows how these stories shocked, educated, entertained, and destroyed the lives of their victims. He also demonstrates how muckraking journalists, con men, and vengeful women determined the boundaries of sexual respectability and damned those considered deviant. Ultimately, the sexual revolution of the 1960s blurred the long-rigid lines of respectability, leading to a rapid decline of blackmail fears. This fascinating view of the impact of regulating sexuality from the late Victorian Age to our own time demonstrates the centrality of blackmail to sexual practices, deviance, and the law.

Britannia and the Bear

Author : Victor Madeira
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838958
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Britannia and the Bear written by Victor Madeira and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadows Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French archival collections, Britannia and the Bear offers a compelling new narrative about how two great powers of the time did battle, both openly and in theshadows. By exploring British and Russian mind-sets of the time this book traces the links between wartime social unrest, growing trade unionism in the police and the military, and Moscow's subsequent infiltration of Whitehall. As early as 1920, Cabinet ministers were told that Bolshevik intelligence wanted to recruit university students from prominent families destined for government, professional and intellectual circles. Yet despite these early warnings, men such as the Cambridge Five slipped the security net fifteen years after the alarm was first raised. Britannia and the Bear tells the story of Russian espionage in Britain in these critical interwar years and reveals how British Government identified crucial lessons but failed to learn many of them. The book underscores the importance of the first Cold War in understanding the second, as well as the need for historical perspective ininterpreting the mind-sets of rival powers. Victor Madeira has a decade's experience in international security affairs, and his work has appeared in leading publications such as Intelligence and National Securityand The Historical Journal. He completed his doctorate in Modern International History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.