The Rise and Demise of Rehabilitation Punishment, Culture and Society in Modern Britain

根据与牛津大学出版社的合同，这笔赠款用于完成一本关于1895年至今英国刑罚制度历史的书的其余三个部分的研究。这笔拨款将允许调查员在伦敦完成对内政部、监狱委员会和大法官办公室未发表文件的研究。这本书将对二十世纪英国惩罚的基本原则和模式进行批判性的描述。它将从非常广泛的角度调查惩罚：从立法，到量刑，再到法定刑罚的执行。它还将强调政治和民众对改革精神的限制。这本书有可能对历史和社会法律研究做出重大贡献。它将引起一些学科群体的兴趣，包括学者：(1)关注法律制定，(2)审查量刑和司法法院，(3)对不同的惩罚模式感兴趣，以及(4)关注新闻和舆论对刑事政策的传授。它将填补学术上的一个现有空白--目前没有对过去一个世纪惩罚趋势的现有综合，也没有人试图将该主题置于更大的社会、政治、法律和历史背景中。

This grant funds research to complete the remaining three sections of a book, under contract with Oxford University Press, on the history of the British penal system from 1895 to the present. This grant will allow the investigator to complete research in London on the unpublished papers of the Home Office, the Prison Commission, and the Lord Chancellor's Office. The book will present a critical account of the essential principles and patterns of punishment in twentieth-century Britain. It will investigate punishment from a very broad perspective: from law making, through sentencing, to the administration of legal penalties. It will also emphasize the political and popular limits to the reforming ethos. This book has the potential to make significant contributions to historical and socio-legal studies. It will be interest to a number of subject groups, including scholars: (1) concerned with law-creation, (2) examining sentencing and the judicial courts, (3) interested in the different modes of punishment, and (4) concerned with the impart on penal policy of the press and public opinion. It will fill an existing gap in scholarship-current there is no existing synthesis of the trends in punishment over the past century and none that seek to situate the subject with the larger social, political, legal, and historical context.