Crime in England 1880-1945 by Barry Godfrey - 9781843929475

Taylor & Francis

Crime in England 1880-1945The rough and the criminal, the policed and the incarcerated\nAuthor(s): Barry Godfrey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Willan Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781843929475, 978-1843929475\nSynopsis\nThis book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. Chapters include an examination of the growth and experience of imprisonment, policing, and probation services; the recording of crime in official statistics and in public memory; and the possibilities of research created by new electronic and on-line sources; an exploration of time, space and place, on crime, and the growth internationalisation and science-led approach of crime control methods in this period.\n\nUnusually, the book presents these issues in a way which illustrates the sources of data that informs modern crime history and discusses how criminologists and historians.