Reformatory and industrial schools and the decline of child imprisonment in mid-Victorian...
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| Title: | Reformatory and industrial schools and the decline of child imprisonment in mid-Victorian... |
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| Authors: | Stack, John A. |
| Source: | History of Education. Mar94, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p59. 15p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Juvenile detention homes, *History, Vagrant children |
| Geographic Terms: | England |
| Abstract: | Highlights the decline of child imprisonment in mid-Victorian England. Child labor in Charles Dickens'`Oliver Twist'; Some statistics on child commitment in Wales and England; Objections of humanitarians to child imprisonment; Reformatory schools as substitutes for prison; Decline of crime as a result of having reformatory schools; Success of Surrey and Middlesex in child reformation. |
| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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