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Volume1
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the Editor
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume I: Crime and Criminals
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Part 1: Crime Numbers
1: “First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary Force,” 1839, Excerpts
2: Archibald Alison, “Imprisonment and Transportation: The Increase of Crime,” 1844, Excerpt
3: Anon., “The Statistics of Female Crime,” 1858
4: Mayhew and Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London, 1862, Excerpt
5: W.D. Morrison, “The Increase of Crime,” 1892
6: E.F. Du Cane, “The Decrease of Crime,” 1893
7: “Report from the Departmental Committee on Prisons,” 1895, Excerpt
Part 2: Types of Crime
2.1 Juvenile Crime
8: Stephen Lushington, Evidence to “Report from the Select Committee on the State of the Gaols,” 1819, Excerpt
9: John Wade, Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis, 1829, Excerpt
10: W.A. Miles, Evidence of Thieves, c. 1835
11: W.A. Miles, Two Female Cases, c. 1837
2.2 Female Crime
12: Violent Theft: Robbery, 29 May 1828, Mary Young, Aged 22
13: Theft: Pocketpicking, Oct. 1840, Mary Bailey, Aged 18; Theft: Stealing from Master, May 1842, Elizabeth Jones, Aged 14
14: Killing: Infanticide, 9 April 1829, Martha Barrett, Aged 36
15: Edwin Lankester, “Infanticide,” 1866
16: “Dr. Lankester on Child Murder,” 1866
17: Henry Mayhew, Statement of a Prostitute, London Labour and the London Poor, 1862
18: Rev. G.P. Merrick, Work Among the Fallen as Seen in the Prison Cell, 1890, Excerpts
2.3 Social Crime
19: George Bishop, Observations, Remarks, and Means, to Prevent Smuggling, 1783, Excerpts
20: Royal Offences: Tax Offences, 27 Feb. 1788, John Bishop
21: W.A. Miles on Cheshire Wrecking, 1837
2.4 Ethnic Crime
22: “First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary Force,” 1839, Excerpt
23: Board of Trade (Alien Immigration), “Reports on the Volume and Effects of Recent Immigration from Eastern Europe Into the U.K.,” 1894, Excerpts
Part 3: Causes of Crime
24: William Mainwaring, An Address to the Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex, 1785, Excerpts
25: P. Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, 1797, Excerpt
26: Anon., Observations on a Late Publication: Intituled A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, 1800, Excerpts
27: W.A. Miles, A Letter to Lord John Russell Concerning Juvenile Delinquency, 1837, Excerpt
28: Archibald Alison, “Causes of the Increase of Crime,” 1844
29: “First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary Force,” 1839, Excerpt
30: Rev. John Clay, “On the Effect of Good or Bad Times on Committals to Prison,” 1855
31: Richard Hussey Walsh, “A Deduction from the Statistics of Crime for the Last Ten Years,” 1857
32: W.D. Morrison, “The Study of Crime,” 1892, Excerpt
Part 4: Dangerous and Criminal Classes
33: Archibald Alison, “Causes of the Increase of Crime,” 1844, Excerpts
34: Jelinger Symons, Tactics for the Times: As Regards the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes, 1849, Excerpts
35: Thomas Plint, Crime in England, Its Relation, Character, and Extent, 1851, Excerpt
36: Henry Mayhew, Evidence to the “Select Committee on Transportation,” 1856, Excerpts
37: Henry Mayhew, “Statement of a Returned Convict,” 1861
38: Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London, Religious Influences, Vol. 2, 1902, Excerpts
39: Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London, Poverty, Vol. 1, 1902, Excerpts
40: Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London, Poverty, Vol. 1, 1902, Excerpt
41: Henrietta O. Barnett, “East London and Crime,” 1888, Excerpt
Part 5: The Born Criminal
42: Lieut.-Col. E.F. Du Cane, “Address on Repression of Crime,” 1875, Excerpt
43: J.B. Thomson, “The Hereditary Nature of Crime,” 1870, Excerpt
44: Havelock Ellis, The Criminal, 1913, Excerpts
45: H.B. Simpson, “Crime and Punishment,” 1896, Excerpt
46: Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, “A Criminological Inquiry in English Prisons,” 1921, Excerpt
Bibliography
Index
Volume2
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Tabel of Contents
About the Editor
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume II: Justice, Mercy, Death
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Part 1: Magistrates and the Sessions’ Courts
1: Charles Cottu, On the Administration of Criminal Justice in England, 1822, Excerpts
2: Reginald W. Jeffery, Dyott’s Diary 1781–1845, 1907, Excerpts
3: William Hone, The Clerical Magistrate, 1819
4: John Paget, “The London Police Courts,” 1875
Part 2: Judges and the Assize Courts
5: Charles Cottu, On the Administration of Criminal Justice in England, 1822, Excerpts
6: Murder of Bow Street Patrol Man, 8 May 1799
Part 3: Prerogative of Mercy
7: Edmund Burke, “Some Thoughts on the Approaching Executions,” 1780
8: Mr. Baron Perryn, Mercy, Death Penalty, 1787
9: Sir William Ashurst, Mercy, Death Penalty, 1787
10: Sir James Eyre, Mercy, Death Penalty, 1787
11: Letters Written by Circuit Judges, 1819: Death Penalty, Mercy
12: Letters Written by Circuit Judges, 1819: Imprisonment Mercy Cases
13: Baron Hotham to Lord Auckland, 1800
14: The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771–1854), 1972, Excerpts
15: Highway Robbery, 8 May 1799, Case of Matthew Stinson
16: Duke of Wellington and Charles Greville on Recorder’s Reports; Prerogative of Mercy, 1826 and 1829
17: Lord Ellenborough on Recorder’s Reports, 1828
18: Memorandum as to the Exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Pardon, 1874
19: Sir William Harcourt on Infanticide Cases, 1884
20: The Lipski Case and the Prerogative of Mercy, 1887
Part 4: The Doctrine of Maximum Severity
21: Martin Madan, Appendix to “Thoughts on Executive Justice,” 1785, Excerpts
22: William Paley’s “Of Crimes and Punishments,” 1785
23: Sir Samuel Romilly, Observations on the Criminal Law of England as it Relates to Capital Punishments, 1810, Excerpts
Part 5: Public Punishments
24: Public Whipping in London, 1786
25: Pillory, 1810
26: The Journal of Samuel Curwen Loyalist, 1781, Excerpt
27: Scene-of-Crime Execution, 1830
28: Nottingham Execution, 1844, Home Secretary on Public Executions
29: Charles Dickens’s Call for an End to Public Executions, 1849
30: The Times Defends Public Executions, 1849
31: John Ashton, “Life of the Mannings”
32: Henry Mayhew, “On Capital Punishments,” 1856, Excerpts
Part 6: Pruning the Fatal Tree
33: Lord Byron on the Frame Work Bill, 1812
34: Lord Byron, “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill,” 1812
35: Thomas Fowell Buxton on Capital Punishment in Felonies, 1819
36: Sir James Mackintosh and Mr. Secretary Peel: Two Images of Justice, 1823
37: Joseph John Gurney’s Opposition to Capital Punishment
Part 7: Resisting Abolition
38: James Fitzjames Stephen, “Capital Punishments,” 1864, Excerpt
Part 8: Sentencing
39: Theft: Grand Larceny, 1820, Joseph Howell; Pickpocketing, 1820, William Harwood
40: Liverpool October Sessions, Calendar of Prisoners, 1849
41: “The Disproportion between the Punishments Adjudged to Crimes of Equal Magnitude,” The Times, 24 Aug. 1846
42: Lord Penzance on Sentencing Inequality, 1870
43: Mr. Sergeant Cox on Cumulative Sentencing, 1874
44: Sir Edmund Du Cane and Sir William Harcourt on the Reduction of Sentence Lengths, 1884
45: James Fitzjames Stephen, “Variations in the Punishment of Crime,” 1885
46: C.H. Hopwood, “Crime and Punishment,” 1893
47: The Judges’ Memorandum on normal Punishments, 1901
Bibliography
Index
Volume3
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the Editor
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume III: Next Only to Death
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Part 1: The Crisis of Punishment and the Penitentiary Act 1779
1: Rev. Samuel Denne, An Attempt to Shew the Good Effects which May Reasonably Be Expected From the Confinement of Criminals in Separate Apartments, 1771, Excerpts
2: Jonas Hanway, The Defects of Police; The Cause of Immorality, 1775, Excerpt
3: William Eden on Crisis of American Transportation, 16 Jan. 1776
4: William Eden and Edmund Burke on the Hulks Bill, 1776
5: William Eden, Observations on the Bill to Punish by ImPrisonment and Hard Labour Certain Offenders; and to Provide Proper Places for Their Reception, 1778
6: Jeremy Bentham, A View of the Hard-Labour Bill, 1778, Excerpts
7: Sir Samuel Romilly on the Gordon Riots, 1780
8: Dr. Samuel Johnson on the Gordon Riots, 1780
9: State of Buckingham Prison, 1787
10: Transportation or Death, Old Bailey, 1787–1789
Part 2: The Hulks
11: “Report from the Select Committee on Secondary Punishments,” 1831–1832, Excerpt
12: W.A. Miles on the Hulks, 1839
13: Petition Letter from Wife of Convict in Hulks in Bermuda, 1860
Part 3: Transportation: Personal Experiences
14: “Van Dieman’s Land,” Modern Street Ballads, 1888
15: Returning from Transportation, 1787–1789, 1809–1810
16: Petitioner Wants to be Transported, 1826
17: Petitioner Wants to Join Convict Husband in New South Wales, 1829
18: Anonymous Threatening Letter from Prisoner Sentenced to Transportation, 1829
Part 4: Transportation: The Critique
19: Rev. Sydney Smith and Sir Robert Peel on secondary Punishments, 1826
20: Charles Grey, “Secondary Punishments – Transportation,” 1834, Excerpt
21: Report from the Select Committee on Transportation, 1838, Excerpt
22: Lord John Russell on Transportation and Secondary Punishment, 1839
23: Sir George Grey on a Reformed System of Transportation, 1847
Part 5: Panopticon
24: Patrick Colquhoun on Bentham’s Panopticon Scheme, 1800, Excerpts
25: John Howard, An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe, 1789, Excerpts
26: “Penitentiary, Millbank: Death of Another Convict,” The Times, 19 July 1823
27: Arthur Griffiths, Memorials of Millbank, 1875, Excerpts
28: Mayhew and Binny on Millbank, 1862
Part 6: Debate on Prison Reform
29: George Holford, “Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of This Country,” Pamphleteer, 1821, Excerpt
30: Sydney Smith, “Prisons,” 1822, Excerpts
31: Sydney Smith on the Treadmill, 1826
32: Description of the Tread Mill, for the Employment of Prisoners, 1823, Excerpts
33: Elizabeth Fry on Religious Instruction in Prisons, 1835
34: Reginald W. Jeffery, Dyott’s Diary 1781–1845, 1907, Excerpts
35: W.A. Miles on Prisons, 1835
36: M.D. Hill, Draft Report on the Principles of Punishment, 1846, Excerpts
37: Alexander Maconochie on the Mark System, 1847
38: Select Committee on Prison Discipline, Maconochie’s Evidence, 1850, Excerpts
Part 7: Silent and Separate Systems of Prison Discipline
39: Report of William Crawford on the Penitentiaries of the United States, 1834, Excerpts
40: Charles Dickens on the Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia, 1842
Part 8: Pentonville and the Age of the Separate System
41: Elizabeth Fry on Pentonville Prison, 1841
42: Dr. Forbes Winslow, “Prison Discipline,” Lancet, 1851
43: Robert Ferguson, “The Two Systems at Pentonville,” 1853
44: Thomas Carlyle, “Model Prisons,” 1850, Excerpts
Bibliography
Index
Volume4
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the Editor
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume IV: Prisons and Prisoners
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Part 1: Mid-Century Penal Crisis
1: W.R. Greg, “The Management and Disposal of Our Criminal Population,” 1854, Excerpts
2: “Meeting of Ticket-of-Leave Men,” Morning Chronicle, 1856
3: The Times on Garrotting Crime and Ticket-of-Leaves, 1862
4: The Times on Penal Servitude and Ticket-of-Leave System, 1862
5: Lord Carnarvon to Herman Merivale, 2 Dec. 1862
6: M.D. Hill to Lord Brougham, 4 Dec. 1862
Part 2: Shaping the Convict Prison
7: “Female Convicts, Brixton, 1858: Unruly Behaviour,” Reports of the Directors of Convict Prisons on the Discipline and Management of . . . Prisons, 1859
8: “Outbreak among the Convicts at Chatham,” The Times, 19 Jan. 1861
9: “Revolt of the Convicts at Chatham,” The Times, 13 Feb. 1861
10: W.A. Guy, “On Some Results of a Recent Census of the Population of the Convict Prisons in England,” 1862
11: C.B. Adderley, “On the Late Reports on Transportation and Penal Servitude: and on Prison Discipline,” 1863
12: Walter Crofton, “Criminal Treatment – Its Principles,” 1868
13: Walter Crofton, The Criminal Classes and Their Control, 1868
Part 3: Punishment of Juveniles
14: William Crawford, Inspector of Prisons, on Parkhurst Prison for Juveniles, 1839
15: “Mettray,” The Athenaeum, 21 Mar. 1846
16: Sydney Turner, “Juvenile Delinquency,” Edinburgh Review, 1851, Excerpts
17: M.D. Hill on Discharging Delinquents to Parents and Employers, 1847
18: Mary Carpenter, “On the Importance of Statistics to the Reformatory Movement, with Returns from Female Reformatories,” 1857
19: W.V. Harcourt on Parental Notice before Forced Emigration or Enlistment of Reformatory and Industrial School Inmates, 1884–1885
Part 4: Political Prisoners
20: Reports by Inspectors of Prisons on Cases of all Political Offenders in Custody on 1 Jan. 1841
21: George White to Mark Norman, Kirkdale Gaol, 10 Oct. 1849, Excerpt
22: Statement by Lady Constance Lytton on the Forcible Feeding of Suffragettes, Jan. 1910
23: Sylvia Pankhurst, “Prison Life and Women,” The Times, 18 June 1910
24: Wilfred Scawen Blunt’s Memo to Churchill, 24 Feb. 1910
25: Arthur Creech Jones, “Manuscript Account of His Thoughts on Prison,” c. 1916–1919
Part 5: Prisons Under Scrutiny
26: Sir William Harcourt on the Decline of the Prison Population, 1884
27: W.D. Morrison, “Are Our Prisons a Failure?” Fortnightly Review, 1894
28: Michael Davitt, “Criminal and Prison Reform,” The Nineteenth Century, 1894
29: Eliza Orme, “Prison Reform (II): Our Female Criminals,” Fortnightly Review, 1898
30: E. Du Cane, “The Prisons Bill and Progress in Criminal Treatment,” The Nineteenth Century, 1898
Part 6: The Indeterminate Prison sentence
31: M.D. Hill, “On the Objections Incident to Sentences of Imprisonment for Limited Periods,” 1870
32: Rev. A. Osborne Jay, The Social Problem: Its Possible Solution, 1893, Excerpts
33: Robert Anderson, “Our Absurd System of Punishing Crime,” The Nineteenth Century, 1901
34: J.F. Sutherland, Recidivism: Habitual Criminality, and Habitual Petty Delinquency, 1908, Excerpts
35: Report from the Departmental Committee on Prisons, 1895
Part 7: De-Centring the Prison
36: Sir Godfrey Lushington before the Gladstone Committee, 1895, Excerpts
37: Charles E.B. Russell, “Some Aspects of Female Criminality and Its Treatment,” 1912
38: Winston Churchill’s Plan to Abate Imprisonment, 1910
39: E. Ruggles-Brise on the Borstal System, 1910
Part 8: Demise of Separate Confinement
40: John Galsworthy’s Open Letter to Home Secretary Gladstone on Solitary Confinement, 1909
41: C.E. Troup and Herbert Gladstone on Separate Confinement, 1909
Bibliography
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