Illiterate Inmates - Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England

Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for those accused and convicted of crime - and its execution over the century that followed, drawing on evidence from both local and convict prisons.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part One: Growth, c.1800-c.1857


• 1: 'Educating Criminals': The Emergence and Spread of an Idea


• 2: The Measurement of Prisoner Literacy and its Uses


• 3: The Evolution of the 'Prison School'


• 4: Inside the Prison School: Teaching, Learning, and its Effects


• Part Two: Uncertainty, c.1850-c.1880


• 5: Educating 'the Criminal'


• 6: Education and the Changing Penal Regime


• Part Three: Retreat, c.1868-c.1899


• 7: The Attempt to Achieve a National System


• 8: The Du Cane Regime: Appearance and Reality


• 9: The Attempt to Rebalance


• Conclusion

About the author

Rosalind Crone is senior lecturer in history at The Open University, author of Violent Victorians (2012) and has written on nineteenth-century popular culture, the history of reading, literacy and education, and the history of prisons. She is Director of the Open University's Centre for the History of Crime, Policing, and Justice and project lead for prisonhistory.org.

Summary

Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for those accused and convicted of crime - and its execution over the century that followed, drawing on evidence from both local and convict prisons.

Additional text

The amount of research that has fed into this book is indeed impressive; the wealth of data - some of which is presented in extensive appendices at the back of the volume - will be an essential resource for anybody studying penal and educational history for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Crone, Rosalind (Senior Lecturer in History Crone, Crone Rosalind
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780198833833
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883383-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, British & Irish history, History of Education, Social and cultural history, Penology and punishment, Prisons