The criminal class was seen as a violent, immoral and dissolute sub-section of Victorian London's population. Making their living through crime and openly hosti

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration

This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of behaviour, and that these expectations were constructed to creat

In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to pris

"Policing Empires examines the militarization of the "civil police" in Britain and the United States. It tracks when, why and how British and US police departme