Books written by Victor Bailey

  • Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain
    Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain

    See also Gordon Hawkins, The Prison, Policy and Practice (Chicago, 1976), ch. ... For Lancashire, see Eric C. Midwinter, Social Administration in Lancashire, 1830-1860 (Manchester, 1969) and John Foster, Class Struggle and the ...

  • This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City
    This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City

    This book attempts to answer this question and also to study how suicide was understood by victims, families, and friends; how the causes of suicide changed over time; and what coroners' inquests can tell us about Victorian life, beliefs, ...

  • Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment
    Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment

    Hood, “Incapacitating the Habitual Criminal: The English Experience,” Michigan Law Review, vol. ... as another reason for police reform, but he never describes any threat from a combination of the labouring and criminal classes.

  • Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment
    Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment

    This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

  • Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment
    Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment

    ... violence presumably going before them. In the early nineteenth century, as waves of Irish migrants flowed into London ... Irish Poor Law Inquiry. In that report he states, that “when large bodies of Irish of less orderly habits, and far ...

  • Charles Booth's Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in Jack-The-Ripper's London
    Charles Booth's Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in Jack-The-Ripper's London

    Exploiting the vast archive that Charles Booth amassed for his leviathan social investigation to explore the social order of London's East End, Life and Labour of the People in London, this volume takes issue with this answer.

  • Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain
    Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain

    This book, first published in 1981, examines the impact of these two important developments and casts new light on the way in which law enforcement evolved during the nineteenth century.

  • The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970
    The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970

    ... humanitarian concern for the protection from abuse of prisoners and lunatics ... Salt and the Humanitarian League supported the Daily Chronicle's 1894 campaign for a prison inquiry; see McConville, English Local Prisons, p. 580. See Henry ...