Victor Bailey

Broschiertes Buch

Judges and Convicts

The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England

Beschreibung

Judges and Convicts: The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England will be of great appeal to students and scholars of history, law, criminology, and sociology, and particularly to those with an interest in the history of the criminal trial, the judiciary, punishment, and sentencing.

Autor

Victor Bailey is the Distinguished Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kansas and Director of the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities (2000-2017). He was educated at the Centre for the Study of Social History, Warwick University, and the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. Among other appointments, he was a research officer at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, and a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author or editor of Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain (1981; 2016), Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914-1948 (1987), This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City (1998), Charles Booth's Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in London (2014), The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970 (2019), and Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment, vols. I to IV (2022). He was a contributor to the collection published as Protest and Survival: Essays for E.P. Thompson (1993).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781041040361
• ISBN-10: 1041040369
• Artikelnr.: 72882115