Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914Cambridge University Press, 1990 - 381 pàgines This ambitious and imaginative work interprets criminal justice history by relating it to intellectual and cultural history. Starting from the assumption that policies and statutes originate in a society's values and norms, the author skillfully and persuasively demonstrates how changes in criminal law and penal practice were related to the changing values of early, mid, and late Victorian and Edwardian society. Wiener traces changes in the criminal justice system by examining the treatment of offenders. During the Victorian period the system became more punitive and then reformed to be more welfarist. This work offers insight into the contemporary Anglo-American penal system. In addition, Wiener's wide-ranging discussion of issues, most notably of free will versus determinism, sheds light on a broad range of Victorian history, beyond crime and punishment. |
Continguts
Acknowledgments page | 1 |
impulse and moralization | 14 |
reforming the law | 46 |
reformed punishment | 92 |
system | 101 |
A changing human image | 159 |
Late Victorian social policy a changing context | 185 |
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