Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law, and policy in England, 1830-1914 / Martin J. Wiener.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1990.
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Table of 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.