Judges and Convicts: The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England

Author:   Victor Bailey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781041040378


Pages:   346
Publication Date:   19 June 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Victor Bailey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9781041040378


ISBN 10:   1041040377
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   19 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction. 1. To Go’the Assize Circuit 2. The Criminal Courts 3. Principles of Sentencing 4. Mitigation 5. Sentencing in the Time of Transportation 6. A New Penal Equation 7. Sentencing in an Age of Panic 8. Tilt Towards Leniency 9. Abatement of Penal Servitude 10. Explaining Judicial Leniency. Envoi

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Victor Bailey is the Distinguished Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kansas and Director of the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities (2000–2017). He was educated at the Centre for the Study of Social History, Warwick University, and the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. Among other appointments, he was a research officer at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, and a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author or editor of Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain (1981; 2016), Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914–1948 (1987), This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City (1998), Charles Booth’s Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in London (2014), The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970 (2019), and Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment, vols. I to IV (2022). He was a contributor to the collection published as Protest and Survival: Essays for E.P. Thompson (1993).

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