The Common School Awakening


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The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative that counters previous conceptions about the rise of public schools in America. In this book, David Komline tells how Christian reformers played a defining role in the movement to systematize and professionalize American education in the first half of the nineteenth century.




Violence and Theft


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Part of a series examining the history of crime and justice in America, this volume attempts to provide an understanding of violence in its historical context. The contributors examine criminal patterns, urban crime, collective violence and homicide.







Proceedings of the Annual Congress of Correction


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Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged.




Remarks on the Relation Between Education and Crime


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Excerpt from Remarks on the Relation Between Education and Crime: In a Letter to the Right Rev. William White The mere absence of crime, therefore, is neither a proof of a'state of morality - for it may originate from very inauspicious causes - nor is the increase of crime of itself a proof of increased degeneracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.