(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a new book on penal
policy and practice in England and Wales between 1895-1970.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Victor Bailey was Director of the Hall Center for
the Humanities from 2000 to 2017 and the Charles W. Battey Distinguished
Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kansas, USA.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Rehabilitative Ideal
1. English Prisons and Penal Culture, 1895-1922
2. Judges, the Tariff and the Abatement of
Imprisonment, 1895-1922
3. War, Inter-War and the Decreasing Prison
Population, 1914-1939
4. Prisons, Prisoners, and Penal Reform,
1922-1938
5. The Persistent Offender, 1908-1939
6. War and Criminal Justice Legislation,
1938-1948
7. Labour Government, Abolition and the Royal
Commission on Capital Punishment, 1945-1953
8. Penal Practice in a Changing Society
9. Homicide Act, 1957: the Politics of Capital
Punishment
10. The High-Water Mark of Rehabilitation,
1964-1966
11. Royal Commission on the Penal System,
1964-1966
12. Abolition of the Death Penalty
Epilogue: The Retributive Turn
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