Suchergebnisse

1. The convict's story -- 2. What shall we do? -- 3. Statistics and the 'capturing' of crime on paper -- 4. From policeman state to regulatory control -- 5. Talking about crime -- 6. An ethical conversation? -- 7. New digital media -- 8. Impact -- 9. Time, place, and space -- 10. New technologies of police power -- 11. Paperwork, networks, information, connections, and theories -- 12. A just measure of punishment : a fair measure of reformation -- 13. The submerged criminal justice 'state'.

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond

AbstractDuring the 19th Century, hundreds of thousands of people were caught up in what Foucault famously referred to as the 'great confinement', or 'great incarceration', spanning reformatories, prisons, asylums, and more. Levels of institutional incarceration increased dramatically across many parts of Europe and the wider world through the expansion of provision for those defined as socially marginal, deviant, or destitute. While this trend has been the focus of many historical studies, much less attention has been paid to the dynamics of 'the great decarceration' that followed for much of the early‐ to mid‐20th Century. This article opens with an overview of these early decarceration trends in the English adult and youth justice systems and suggests why these came to an end from the 1940s onwards. It then explores parallels with marked decarceration trends today, notably in youth justice, and suggests how these might be expedited, extended, and protected.