For Further Reading: Children & Crime
PRIMARY SOURCES
Carpenter, Mary. Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offender. London: C. Gilpin, 1851.
_________. Juvenile Delinquents, Their Condition and Treatment. London: W. & F. G. Cash, 1853.
Committee for Investigating the Causes of the Alarming Increase of Juvenile Delinquency London. The Report of the Committee for Investigating the Alarming Increase of Juvenile Delinquency in the Metropolis. London: J.F Dove, 1816.
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist Or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
Greenwood, James. The Seven Curses of London. London: Stanley Rivers and Co., 1869.
Horsfall, Thomas. The Study of Beauty and Art in Large Towns: Two Papersby T.C. Horsfall, With an Introduction by John Ruskin, D.C.L., LL.D., Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary Fellow of Corpus-Christi College. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883.
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work. Vol. 1. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851.
Wilde, Oscar. Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life. London: Murdoch & Co., 1898.
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon. Facts Relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis. London: James Ridgway, 1831.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Abbott, Jane. “The Press and the Public Visibility of Nineteenth-Century Criminal Children.” In Criminal Conversations: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage, ed. Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005.
Briggs, John, Mr. John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, and David Vincent. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Duckworth, Jeannie. Fagin's Children: Criminal Children in Victorian England. London: Hambledon and London, 2002.
Eagles, Stuart. “Thomas Coglan Horsfall, and Manchester Art Museum and University Settlement.” The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education. 2009. www.infed.org/settlements/manchester_art_museum_and_university_settlement.htm.
Gehring, Thom and Fredalene B. Bowers. “Mary Carpenter: 19th Century English Correctional Education Hero.” Journal of Correctional Education, 54, no. 3 (2003): 116-122.
Johnston, Helen. Crime in England 1815-1880: Experiencing the Criminal Justice System. New York: Routledge, 2015.
King, Peter. “The Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing Patterns of Perception and Prosecution.” Past & Present, 160 (1998): 116-166.
Godfrey, Barry and Paul Lawrence, Crime and Justice since 1750. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Magarey, Susan. “The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth-Century England.” Labour History, 34 (1978), 11-27.
Shore, Heather. Artful Dodgers : Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London. Woodbrige: The Royal Historical Society/The Boydell Press, 1999.
Thiel, Liz. “Degenerate ‘Innocents’: Childhood, Deviance, and Criminality in Nineteenth Century Texts.” In The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary, ed. by Adrienne E. Gavin. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2012.