SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours - Volume 3, No 2, November 2009
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Crime Violence and the Modern State II May 2009, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg, ' Blame, Shame and Culpability'
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British Legal History Conference July 2009, University of Exeter, ‘Making Legal History: Methodologies, Sources and Substance’
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)
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