Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830 1914

by Martin J. Weiner, Martin J. Wiener, Martin Joel Wiener

Book Overview

This ambitious and imaginative work interprets criminal justice history by relating it to intellectual and cultural history. Starting from the assumption that policies and statutes originate in a society's values and norms, the author skilfully and persuasively demonstrates how changes in criminal law and penal practice were related to the changing values of early, mid, and late Victorian and Edwardian society. Wiener traces changes in the criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521478820
• ISBN13: 9780521478823
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"