Guide to the Criminal Prisons of Nineteenth-Century England
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1459759
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- London Publishing Partnership
- ISBN
- 9781907994845
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This two-volume guide is based on complex research and extensive bodies of evidence. It maps comprehensively and for the first time 847 English local and convict prisons between 1800 and 1899, based on lists of 19th-century penal institutions created by reformers and government officials, supplemented by a range of local sources, such as county directories. Details of surviving records on prisons were extracted from public archives across England and matched to the relevant prisons. The introduction demonstrates how this data reshapes our knowledge of the penal landscape and penal record keeping in 19th-century England while suggesting avenues for new research.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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