'Saved from a life of vice and crime' : reformatory and industrial schools for girls, c.1854-c.1901

Reformatory and industrial schools were semi-penal Victorian institutions designed, firstly, to reclaim juveniles from a nascent criminal career and, secondly, to prevent neglected children from slipping into criminality. Most existing studies of these schools have been principally concerned with th...

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Main Author: Cale, Michelle
Published: University of Oxford 1993
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385417