Bailey, Victor

The rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal, 1895-1970

by Bailey, Victor

0 Type: Book

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminal…

The rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal, 1895-1970

by Bailey, Victor

0 Type: Book

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminal…

Legal systems are deeply affected by the social situation in which they function: by the content of contemporary debate on poverty, crime and disorder; by the social relations of the propertied and the poor. They have been infrequently analysed in terms of such influences. Histo…