“Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England

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“Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England

One of the most striking changes in the penal culture of fin-de-siècle Europe was England's reform of adjudication and punishment. In this “de-moralization of criminality,” the system began to shed its punitive sentencing, which often saw minor offenders imprisoned with hard labor for weeks or...

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Main Author:	Auerbach, Sascha
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2015
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51606/

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