Nipping Crime in the Bud
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Nipping Crime in the Bud

How the Philanthropic Quest Was Put Into Law

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eBook - PDF

Nipping Crime in the Bud

How the Philanthropic Quest Was Put Into Law

About this book

At a time when problems of crime and antisocial behaviour stimulate debate on big society solutions, this book provides an exceptional means of tracing a line of response which began at the end of the 18th century. Nipping Crime in the Bud explores the origins and development of the Philanthropic Society (and its influence on contemporary institutions) amid growing alarm about crime levels, Draconian sentences under England's Bloody Code and a paucity of effective crime prevention measures. Driven by Enlightenment zeal and ideals, this was the first voluntary sector charity devoted to 'nipping crime in the bud'. It did so through education, training, accom­modation, mentoring and support for young people. Uniquely, the book traces the first hard won policy networks and partnerships between government and the voluntary sector. It reveals how—sometimes against the odds, with funding on a knife edge but constantly striving for effective answers—influential philan­thropists rose to the challenge and changed approaches to young people involved in crime and delinquency, traces of which endure today within the great crime prevention charities which still rally to this cause. Muriel Whitten's book draws on previously neglected archival sources and other first-hand research to create a formidable and illuminating account about what, for many people, will be a missing chapter in English social and legal History.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the author
  3. The author of the Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword
  6. Dedication
  7. The Philanthropic Quest
  8. The Philanthropic Plan Put Into Practice
  9. Problems of Governance
  10. Reformatory Refinements
  11. A Thinning Mesh of Support
  12. Enlightenment
  13. The Legislative Quest
  14. Into the Future
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back cover