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‘Inventing’ the Victorian Juvenile Offender with Twenty-First Century Students. Research-Led Teaching. Awareness and Understanding of: New Discourses Change Over Time Evolving Criminal Justice Social Reform Moral Panic? Experience and Agency. Why Juvenile Crime?.
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‘Inventing’ the Victorian Juvenile Offender with Twenty-First Century Students Research-Led Teaching Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Awareness and Understanding of: • New Discourses • Change Over Time • Evolving Criminal Justice • Social Reform • Moral Panic? • Experience and Agency Why Juvenile Crime? Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
‘…the number of boys is very small whose original tendencies to do wrong have not sprung from the improper conduct of their parents…’ http://books.google.co.uk Moral Panic? Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
‘Standing in one corner of the room with his arms akimbo, looking as bold as any lion’ (Peter Bedford, Select Committee Police, 1817) John Leary, OB, November 1814 Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Male, cocky and cunning • Skilled • Recidivism key concern The ‘Artful Dodger’ Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
‘He is a stunted little man already’ (M. Davenport Hill, 1855) Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Classification and separation • Occupational and educational strategies • Transportation and colonial emigration • 1847 – Juvenile Offenders Act • 1854-57 – Reformatory and Industrial School Acts Evolving Criminal Justice Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Philanthropic Society est. 1788 Mary Carpenter Social Reform Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Impact? • Agency? • Experience? • Use the experience of ‘real’ young offenders Agency and Experience Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
McCartney from Glasgow • Johnston als Harris Euryalus Boys Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Life ‘on’ the streets • Life ‘in’ the criminal justice system • CRITICAL reading of documents • ANALYSIS of change over time • UNDERSTANDING of evolving criminal justice systems Students learn about ‘lived’ experience Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University
Integrated Primary and Secondary Sources • Comparative Analysis • Online Research and Searching • Continuing Availability of Resources? Questions and Problems Heather Shore Leeds Metropolitan University