| Description |
xxii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Clarendon studies in criminology |
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Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: A ̀New' Penology? -- Critiquing the New Penology -- The New Penology: Backdated to the 1860s? -- Realistic Evaluation -- Lessons for Our Understanding of How These Acts ̀Worked' |
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Contents note continued: Body art and disfiguration -- Aliases -- Criminal Careers -- Onset -- Types of offending -- Dangerousness -- Experience of incarceration -- Persistence and desistence in offending careers -- Conclusion -- 6.Hunting Men Down to Honesty and Respectability -- Applying the Acts -- The Effectiveness of the Acts -- The Impact of Imprisonment on Offending Careers -- The timing of imprisonment -- Was the length of sentence influential? -- Throwing away the key---the Victorian and Edwardian view -- The impact of imprisonment on employment and family life -- Post-release assistance: discharged prisoner associations -- What was the Impact of Police Surveillance on Offending? -- The impact of supervision on employment and family -- Did the Penal Servitude and Habitual Offender Acts ̀Work'? -- Conclusion -- 7.Making Sense of Historical and Modern Systems of Control and Surveillance -- Public Protection and the Criminal Justice Process in the Modern Era -- |
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Contents note continued: Legislating against the criminal classes -- Punishing Offenders -- The Penal Acts and Punitiveness -- Habitual Offender Legislation -- Assessing the Impact of the Legislation -- Indeterminate Sentences -- The Strange Death of Preventative Detention -- Conclusion -- 4.Understanding the Evidence -- Victorian and Edwardian Thoughts on the Scale of the Problem -- Measuring Serious Crime -- Tracking and Recording Habitual Offenders -- Towards the development of a ̀system' -- Surveillance in the era of habitual offender legislation -- How the ̀system' worked in practice -- Case Studies -- William Atkinson (alias Wilson) -- James Robertson -- Robert Hilton -- Thomas King -- Conclusion -- 5.The Impact of Social and Personal Factors on Serious Offending -- A General Description of the Cases -- Recidivism -- Marriage and family -- Employment -- Typical habitual offenders -- Was Employment Related to Offending Patterns? -- Peripatetic offending and itinerancy -- |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Serious Offenders and their Researchers -- Pre-1850 Period: Social Commentary on Robbers, Vagrants, and Thieves -- Eighteenth-century moral panics and newspaper reportage -- More informed debate? -- Into the nineteenth century -- 1850-1945: The Beginning of a Systematic Approach -- Conceiving the criminal classes -- A criminal aristocracy or pluckless guinea pigs? -- The production of knowledge on the criminal classes -- A surfeit of science? -- 1910-1945: New pragmatism and research -- 1945-2010: Academic Research on Serious Offenders -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The 1990s to the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- 2.Our Methodology -- The Main Sources -- Grouping Our Cases -- Supporting Data -- Life Grids -- The Construction of a Quantitative Dataset -- Ethics in Historical Methodology -- 3.Serious Offenders and the Legislation that ̀Produced' Them -- The Legislative Framework 1824-1940 -- Vagrancy legislation -- |
| Summary |
"Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals examines the persistent offending careers of men and women operating in northwest England between the 1840s and 1940s. The book focuses on a group of serious and persistent offenders who as well as offending in the region, had lengthy offending careers spanning several decades in various other locations. These were highly mobile persistent serious offenders who appear not to have been so closely bound in to the processes and structures which aided desistence from offending for the vast majority of the petty offenders." -- Publisher's infornation |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-232) and index |
| Subject |
Recidivists -- England, North West -- History -- 19th century.
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Recidivists -- England, North West -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Cox, David J.
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Farrall, Stephen.
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| LC no. |
2010941963 |
| ISBN |
019959466X (hbk.) |
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9780199594665 (hbk.) |
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