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Title: Crime and Industrial Society in the19th Century
Description: London, B.T. Batsford, 1967. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, 288 pp. Series : Studies in economic and social history. Based on the author’s thesis, University of London, 1965.. Rear cover waterstained. Binding corner bump.Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Objective and the Difficulties; The Statistics of Crime; Crime and Industrial Society from the Eighteenth century to the Present Day; Criminals and the Course of Crime in the Nineteenth Century: THe Criminal Class; Juveniles and Women; The Institutions of the Criminal Class; Changes Over Time, and Diffirences Between Places; Factors Affecting Crime: Poverty and Population Grouth ; Other Economic and Social Change: Education; Rookeries and Housing; Transport; Improved Machinery and Improved Methods; Money; Punishment: Capital Punishment; Secondary Punishment; Reformatory Schools and Industrial Schools; Sentencing; Some Other New Laws and New Systems: Changes in the Criminal Law; Police; The Poor Law; Legal and Administrative Change in General; Conclusion: Crime and Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century; Appendix.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, British History, Crime, Criminology, Great Britain, Nineteenth Century, Criminals, Penology, Law Legal Penal

Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS015996I