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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword by Frances Crook -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: Becoming Miss Fry -- 1. A Quaker daughter -- The Fry family -- Margeryâ#x80;#x99;s childhood -- Margeryâ#x80;#x99;s education -- Margery at university -- Conclusion -- 2. A university woman -- Choosing a future -- Return to Oxford, 1899â#x80;#x93;1904 -- A marriage proposal -- A new library -- Moving to Birmingham -- University House -- The new University House |
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The Staffordshire Education Committee3. Womenâ#x80;#x99;s suffrage and war relief -- Fry money and people -- Bloomsbury -- Friends in Birmingham: Rose Sidgwick and Bruce McLaren -- Womenâ#x80;#x99;s suffrage -- War work in France, 1915â#x80;#x93;1917 -- The end of the war: personal loss and return to England -- Conclusion -- PART II: Woman champion of the underdog -- 4. The creation of the Howard League -- Taking over the Penal Reform League -- Womenâ#x80;#x99;s rights, the magistracy and penal reform -- The Magistratesâ#x80;#x99; Association and the Howard League |
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Securing the Howard Leagueâ#x80;#x99;s futureConclusion -- 5. Pressure behind the scenes -- Home life, 1930â#x80;#x93;1958 -- A â#x80;#x98;statutory womanâ#x80;#x99; -- The Street Offences Committee -- The Howard Leagueâ#x80;#x99;s international work -- Criminal justice in the British Empire -- The Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders (ACTO) -- Conclusion -- 6. Popularizing penal reform -- Promoting the Howard League -- Press and broadcasting -- Prison visits -- Campaigning against the death penalty -- 7. Promoting criminology -- Margery Fry and criminology in the 1920s |
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Promoting criminologyComparative penology -- Youth justice: policy and research -- Margeryâ#x80;#x99;s last campaign: helping the victims of crime -- Margeryâ#x80;#x99;s illness and death -- Conclusion -- Bibliography |
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"In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the political agenda. In 2016, the Howard League for Penal Reform - an organization that has energetically lobbied for improvements in the treatment of offenders throughout its lifetime - celebrated its 150th anniversary. This book considers the life and work of Margery Fry, the woman who created the modern Howard League and dominated it from 1918 until her death in 1958, and places the UK's oldest surviving penal reform pressure group and its current work into their historical context. It examines Fry's legacy as a campaigner for an international standard of prisoners' minimum rights, which resulted in a United Nations charter, for the introduction of compensation for victims of criminal injuries, and for the abolition of the death penalty, and also considers her role in the establishment of criminology as an academic discipline and her organization of the first criminology lectures in Great Britain. It is essential reading for all those engaged in prisons research, penal reform and criminal justice history."--Provided by publisher |
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Fry, Margery, 1874-1958.
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Fry, Margery, 1874-1958 fast |
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Howard League for Penal Reform.
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Howard League for Penal Reform fast |
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Prison reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Punishment -- Great Britain -- History
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Prisons -- Great Britain -- History
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- History
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Prison reformers
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Prisons
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Punishment
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315175928 |
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1315175924 |
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