SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours - Volume 3 - 2009
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Negotiating Responsibility: Ideas of Protecting and Disciplining the Child in London Schools 1908 and 1918
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)This article aims to contextualise notions of state care and responsibility as set out by the London County Council in their suggested amendments to the 1908 Children’s Bill. It discusses the relationships and environments ... -
Inside the Inner London Juvenile Court, c. 1909-1953
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)This article considers the workings of an individual juvenile court – the branch of the Inner London Juvenile Court, which sat at Old Street from 1910 and Toynbee Hall from 1929. It examines the spatial environment of the ... -
More Ignorant and Stupid than Wilfully Cruel’: Homicide Trials and ‘Baby-Farming’ in England and Wales in the Wake of the Children Act 1908
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)This article examines the impact of the Children Act 1908 on longstanding concerns that foster or informally 'adoptive' parents were uniquely likely to murder the children in their care. Making particular reference to the ... -
Policy Networks and the Juvenile Court: The Reform of Youth Justice, c. 1905-1950
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)This article examines in detail the construction of government policy for juvenile courts during the first half of the twentieth century. The Children Act 1908 required that criminal charges against children and young ... -
Youth and Crime: Centennial Reflections on the Children Act 1908
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“A Grave Question”: The Children Act and Public House Regulation, c. 1908-1939
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)This article considers the impact of the Children Act 1908 on the regulation of public houses in the period c.1908-39. The Act banned minors under 14 years old from public bars in the attempt to protect them from what ... -
'Don't Look Now' - Masculinities, Altruistic Fear and the Spectre of Self: When, Why and How Men Fear for Others
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)This article draws on the contentious concept of the fear of crime and in particular focuses on two factors which, it is argued, have been afforded insufficient consideration in the 'fear of crime' debate, those of gender ... -
Samuel Holberry: Chartist Conspirator or Victim of a State Conspiracy
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)In January 1840, Samuel Holberry a Sheffield Chartist, was committed to trial at Sheffield Assizes for seditious conspiracy. A critical examination of the evidence presented at the committal hearing and subsequent Assize ... -
Ethics and Vulnerability in Street Prostitution; An Argument in Favour of Managed Zones
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)This article draws upon the work of Judith Butler, in particular her approach to ethics and the concepts of vulnerability and 'liveable lives,' in order to provide a critical analysis of reform proposals contained in the ... -
Who are You? We have Ways of Finding Out! Tracing the Police Development of Offender Identification Techniques in the Late Nineteenth Century
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)From the very beginning of modern policing there were a number of problems; not the least of these was the difficulty that the police had in identifying those they had arrested. This was important for a number of reasons ...
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