Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment

Name: Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Nineteenth-Century Crime and PunishmentAuthor(s): Victor Bailey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138587335, 978-1138587335\nSynopsis\nThis four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). \n\nThe first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the r.