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Researching Juvenile Offenders 1820–1920
Barry Godfrey, Emma Watkins 7th Nov 2018

How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave – and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved – changed dramatically, and Emma Watkins and Barry Godfrey, in this accessible and expert guide, provide a fascinating introduction to this neglected subject. Their book is a rare combination of academic guide and how-to-do-it manual. It offers readers cutting-edge research by experts in the field and shows them how to explore the subject and find out about the lives of offending children.