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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 justice system by examining the treatment of offenders. During the Victorian period the system became more punitive and was then reformed in line with welfarist thinking. Wiener's wide-ranging discussion of issues, most notably of free will versus determinism, sheds light on a broad range of Victorian history, beyond crime and punishment.
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'This account of the penal law and the penal system in Victorian England is worked out with great care and an abundance of documentation ... Martin Wiener has illuminated a major aspect of the moral and social revolution of our own time.' Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Times Literary Supplement
'Reconstructing the Criminal is valuable addition to our stock of knowledge about nineteenth-century penality. It is an original and important work, refreshingly free of jargon, and based on prodigious historical research.' Piers Beirne, Contemporary Sociology
'Martin J. Wiener's book provides an intellectual framework for understanding the varieties and complexities of the topic by considering attitudes and actions in their cultural settings. Borrowing methods from literature and using a wide range of sources, Wiener gives coherence to the practices of nineteenth-century penology and a foundation to those of the twentieth century.' E. M. Palmegiano, The American Historical Review
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This 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, the author demonstrates how changes in criminal law and penal practice related to the changing values of Victorian and Edwardian society.
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Reconstructing the Criminal : Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "A break-through study that interprets criminal justice history by relating it to the bedrock of intellectual and cultural change. Reconstructing the Criminal is broadly and deeply researched, and Wiener's historical findings surely have some application to the hugely important problems of crime and punishment in our own time. But I believe the book's preeminent value is in its range of discussion of and depth of insight into cultural issues, whether scientific, religious, philosophical, or literary. This book should have an impact well beyond the confines of criminal justice history." Stanley Palmer, University of Texas at Arlington "By showing us how ideas about crime and criminality were constructed and reconstructed, he uses the fears of English intellectuals to illuminate their views of character and society. His work helps to make sense of the large transitions in social policy and law effected by the British state during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wiener artfully blends analyses of fiction, social science, and public discourse into a convincing treatment of cultural change. He moves with authority among a wide variety of sources to illuminate fundamental Victorian attitudes which shaped both public privacy and private sanctions." Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania "The death of Victorian England signified, among other things, the transference of responsibility from the individual to the state. The 'reconstructing' of the criminal went hand in hand with the reconstructing of the citizen. By showing how that process of reconstruction took place, how the criminal was first 'moralized' and then 'demoralized', how the culture affected the law, and how the social ethos impinged on social policy, Martin Wiener has illuminated a major aspect of the moral and social revolution of our own time." Times Literary Supplement A clean and tight copy. Dust jacket sunned but now housed in a new Brodart cover. Seller Inventory # 011980
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