Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; 1 Punishment, reformation and prevention: changing attitudes to juvenile crime in mid-nineteenth century Britain; 2 'The lamentable extent of youthful depravity': the Tron Riot of 1812; 3 Stirrings for change: developments in Edinburgh, 1812-1846; 4 'An intermediate step': the Glasgow House of Refuge, 1838-1854; 5 Prevention is better than cure: the Aberdeen industrial schools, 1841-1854
6 Ragged school rivalry: the Original versus the United Industrial School in Edinburgh, 1847-18547 'A better model': the influence of the Scottish approach in England; 8 The emergence of a national system (i): reformatory and industrial schools legislation, 1854-1872; 9 The emergence of a national system (ii): the effects of legislation on individual schools; 10 Schooling for all: industrial schools and the 1872 Education Act; 11 Change and continuity: nineteenth-century approaches in context; Bibliography; Index