SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective: Recent submissions
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'On Historical Contextualisation': Some Further Reflections
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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 ... -
The Next Stage of Devolution? A (D)evolving Criminal Justice System for Wales
(University of Plymouth, 2008-04)The coalition government in Wales has committed itself to seriously consider devolving the criminal justice system for Wales. It is seen as the next possible step in the devolution process. To some extent many of the ... -
Collective Memory and Blood Feud: The Case of Mountainous Crete
(University of Plymouth, 2008-04)Drawing upon ethnographic data from mountainous central Crete, a feuding society up to the present moment, this article will focus on cases of retaliatory crimes where men avenge a relative who was killed before they were ... -
'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 ... -
Australia and the War Against Terrorism: Terrorism, National Security and Human Rights
(University of Plymouth, 2008-04)This article considers whether in the 'war against terrorism' national security is eroded or strengthened by weakening or removing the human rights of the individuals who constitute the polity. It starts with the view ...