Treatment in the open- A history of probation and corporal punishment in the courts of England and Wales 1900 to 1950

The rehabilitation of the offender in the community is today an integral partof many criminal justice jurisdictions. This book takes a step back and describeshow this modern aspect of criminal justice was introduced in Englandand Wales. At one level it is a history of criminal justice in England and Walesat another an account of how shifting psychological and social work discoursesbecame applied to the offender. It describes how modern beliefs inthe treatment of the criminal arrived. The work uses archive material to showhow policy and practice debates were resolved and the uneven and contestedjourney to a distinctly modern set of community penalties. Much of thatarchive material is discussed for the first time in this work and includes bothgovernment and practitioner records. The book will be of interest to all thoseworking in the criminal justice sector or concerned with the rehabilitation ofthe criminal. The work is also aimed at academic historians and criminologistsparticularly those interested in emerging debates about the history ofcrime and its treatment.