Violent crime in England in 1919: post-war anxieties and press narratives

Youth, guns, and violent crime.

Young people are overrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Indeed, some commentators have suggested that recent cohorts of youth have been composed of "superpredators" who have little regard for human life. The evidence, however, suggests that other factors are responsible for recent increases in youth gun violence. This article analyzes the extent and causes of youth violen...

Violent Crime Scene

War and Crime

This book deals with the analogies between the causes of war and the causes of crime, the effects of war upon crime and the possibility of Preventing and punishing war by methods similar to those used in the penal code applied to the individual. Readers of this journal as intelligent citizens will find the whole book worth studying, especially the last section in which international Police duty...

Instincts of the herd in peace and war 1916–1919

PHIL BROWN, The transfer of care. Psychiatric deinstitutionalization and its afiermath, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 275, £19.95. This sociological overview of the impact ofdeinstitutionalization on America's mental health services is written from a perspective which is informed by debates within the history of psychiatry as well as medical sociology. In his description o...

Crime in England 1550-1800

to the significance there of the workhouses. She discusses the economic, social, and political factors which shaped the system of poor law, and, in opposition to received opinion, she demonstrates that in spite of a theoretically centralized administration of the Poor Law of 1834, in practice areas like Norfolk retained considerable autonomy. This, together with other new interpretations, make ...