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This work interprets criminal justice history by relating it to intellectual and cultural history. Starting from the assumption that policies and statutes originate in a society's values, the author demonstrates how changes in criminal law and penal practice related to the changing values of Victorian and Edwardian society.Martin Joel Wiener is the author of 'Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521350457 and ISBN 052135045X.
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