Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Reformatory and industrial schools and the decline of child imprisonment in mid-Victorian... |
| 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 |
