Langbeschreibung
This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. There are a series of interesting and lively debates of a thematic nature which will engage historians, criminologists, and research methods specialists, as well as the undergraduates and school students that, like the author, are fascinated by crime history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The convict's story 2. What shall we do? 3. Statistics and the 'capturing of crime' 4. From policeman state to regulatory control 5. Talking of crime 6. An ethical conversation 7. New digital media 8. Impact 9. Time, place and space 10. New technologies of policing 11.Paperwork, networks, information, connections and theories 12. A just measure of punishment: a fair measure of reformation 13. The submerged criminal justice 'state'.