“Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England
(2015)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (in press). “Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England. Law and History Review, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248015000280
One of the most striking changes in the penal culture of fin-de-siècle Europe was England's reform of adjudication and punishment. In this “de-moralization of criminality,” the system began to shed its punitive sentencing, which often saw minor offen... Read More about “Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England.