Reconstructing the Criminal
Subtitle: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 18301914
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 26, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521478823
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Criminal Justice Administration; History - General History; Law; England; Criminology; Europe - Great Britain - General; Legal History; Criminology--England--History--19th century; History / Great Britain; Law / Legal History; Law-Legal History; Social Science-Criminology
First sentence: Victorian observers looking back on the previous century, V.A.C. Gatrell has noted, "would have been struck by their forefathers' relative indifference to crime as a 'problem', and by their relative satisfaction with the apparently arbitrary and capricious mechanisms which contained it."