Title: Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law, and policy in England, 1830-1914 /
Authors: Wiener, Martin J.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Criminology England History; Criminal justice, Administration of England History; Criminology history; Criminal Law history
Contents: Introduction : criminal policy as cultural history -- The origins of Victorianism : impulse and moralization -- Victorian criminal policy I : reforming the law -- Victorian criminal policy II : reformed punishment -- A changing human image -- Late Victorian social policy : a changing context -- The de-moralizing of criminality -- Prosecution and sentencing : the erosion of moral discourse -- Disillusion with the prison -- The outcome : social debility and positive punishment.