Skip to content
Skip to main content

About this free course

Download this course

Share this free course

Exploring the history of prisoner education
Exploring the history of prisoner education

Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available.

References

Anon. (1879) Convict Life; or, Revelations Concerning Convicts and Convict Prisons, by a Ticket of Leave Man. London: Wyman and Sons.
Bailey, V. (2019) The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970. London: Routledge.
Corfield, P. (2010) ‘Historians and the Return of the Diachronic’, in Harlaftis, G., Karapidakis, N., Sbonias, K. and Vaoipoulos, V. (eds) New Ways of History: Developments in Historiography. London and New York: I.B. Taurus.
Crone, R. (2022) Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
‘Exploring the Outcomes of Prisoner Learners: Analysis of Linked Offender Records from the Police National Computer and Individualised Learner Records’ (Ministry of Justice & Department for Education, 2017).
Forsythe, W.J. (1987) The Reform of Prisoners, 1830–1900, New York: St Martin’s Press.
Garland, D. (1985) Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies, Aldershot: Gower.
Knox, W.W. (n.d.) ‘The Scottish Educational System, 1840–1940’ in A History of the Scottish People. Available at: https://www.scran.ac.uk/ scotland/ pdf/ SP2_1Education.pdf [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ) (Accessed 30 September 2021).
Lawrence, P. (2019) ‘Historical criminology and the explanatory power of the past’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19(4), pp. 493–511.
McConville, S. (1995a) English Local Prisons, 1860–1900: Next only to death. London: Routledge.
McConville, S. (1995b) ‘The Victorian Prison: England, 1865–1965’, in Morris N. and Rothman, D.J., The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 117–50.
Radzinowicz, L. and Hood, R. (1990) The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Report of the Proceedings at the Joint Meeting of the Seventh Annual Prison Conference and Conference of Discharged Prisons’ Aid Societies (1885) London, Reformatory and Refuge Union.
Report from the Departmental Committee on Prisons (1895), Parliamentary Papers, vol. LVI.1, 55.
Report of the Departmental Committee on Education and Moral Instruction of Prisoners in Local and Convict Prisons (1896) Parliamentary Papers, vol. XLIV.1, 19.
Report of Commissioners of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1896–97 (1897) Parliamentary Papers, vol. XL.105.
Smith, B.A. (1981) ‘The Irish Prison System, 1885–1914: Land War to World War’, Irish Jurist, 16(2), pp. 316–49.
Sutherland, G. (1990) ‘Education’, in Thompson, F.M.L. (ed.) The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950. Volume 3: Social Agencies and Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tosh, J. (2008) Why History Matters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Walsh, T. (2016) ‘The National System of Education, 1831–2000’ in B. Walsh (ed.) Essays in the History of Irish Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weiner, M. J. (1990) Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.