Book Description
A look at the crimes committed by children and teenagers throughout history and the punishments they received for their digressions.
Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410918727
A look at the crimes committed by children and teenagers throughout history and the punishments they received for their digressions.
Author : Wilbur R. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 4161 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1483305937
Several encyclopedias overview the contemporary system of criminal justice in America, but full understanding of current social problems and contemporary strategies to deal with them can come only with clear appreciation of the historical underpinnings of those problems. Thus, this five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services. Among other things, this encyclopedia: explicates philosophical foundations underpinning our system of justice; charts changing patterns in criminal activity and subsequent effects on legal responses; identifies major periods in the development of our system of criminal justice; and explores in the first four volumes - supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents - evolving debates and conflicts on how best to address issues of crime and punishment. Its signed entries in the first four volumes--supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents--provide the historical context for students to better understand contemporary criminological debates and the contemporary shape of the U.S. system of law and justice.
Author : Ross Gilfillan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1473834724
Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films. Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. Pornographers proliferate and an estimated eighty thousand prostitutes operate on the city’s streets. Even worse, the vulnerable are robbed in dark alleys or garroted, a new kind of mugging in which the victim is half-strangled from behind while being stripped of his possessions. This history takes you to nineteenth-century London’s grimy rookeries, home to thousands of the city’s poorest and most desperate residents. Explore the crime-ridden slums, flash houses, and gin palaces from a unique street-level view—and meet the people who inhabited them.
Author : Lawrence Friedman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1459608135
In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.
Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1569 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1351001590
This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of ‘knowing the criminal,’ the role of ‘moral panics,’ and the definition of the ‘criminal classes’ and ‘habitual offenders’. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.
Author : Herbert Elmer Mills
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Charities
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Insurance
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Insurance
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Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.
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Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Nineteenth century
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