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  • Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors

    Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia

    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to ‘historical’ or ‘non-recent’ child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.The book examines the emergence of NRCSA as a distinctive social, ... Read more

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  • Leading the Police

    A History of Chief Constables 1835–2017

    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    In 2015 the College of Policing published its Leadership Review with specific reference to the type of leadership required to ensure that the next generation of Chief Constables and their management approach will be fit for purpose. Three key issues were highlighted as underpinning the effective leadership and management of contemporary policing: hierarchy, culture and consistency. Yet these are ... Read more

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  • Behaving Badly

    Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

    Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability. They are often depicted as periods that shared a conviction that the stability of society, including its affluence, was threatened by the activities of social deviants. These essays aim to examine crime of a socially visible nature, in the context ... Read more

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  • Crime News in Modern Britain

    Press Reporting and Responsibility, 1820-2010

    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Public Indecency in England 1857-1960

    'A Serious and Growing Evil’

    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour in public by legal and legislative means through the use of a somewhat nebulous concept of ‘indecency’. Remarkably however, public indecency remains a much under-researched aspect of English legal, social and criminal justice history.Covering a period of just over a ... Read more

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  • Gender, Sexualities and Law

    Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law, persons and the legal profession, along with the gender bias of legal outcomes, has been a fractious, but ... Read more

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    Diversity and Agency, 1750�1914

    The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical ... Read more

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  • Crime and Justice since 1750

    This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice ... Read more

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  • Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914

    Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1. It charts how prosecution and punishment have changed from the early modern to the modern period and reflects on how the changing nature of English society has affected these processes. By combining extensive primary material alongside a ... Read more

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  • Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900

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    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime, the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical ... Read more

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  • Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City

    The Police and the Public

    The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and its replacement by a centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' ... Read more

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  • Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain

    Edited by Victor Bailey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment
    In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of an organised, regular police, and the emergence of new secondary punishments, following the restriction in the scope of the death penalty. In place of an ill-paid parish constabulary, functioning largely through a system of rewards and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD