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    Book Review: Bailey V, The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970


    Black, Lynsey (2021) Book Review: Bailey V, The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970. Punishment & Society, 23 (2). pp. 290-293. ISSN 1462-4745

    Abstract

    Victor Bailey’s The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970 takes as its focus the criminological narrative that through the twentieth century the rehabilitative ideal rose to great prominence, before crashing and burning for a period from the 1970s. Bailey takes this nugget of common sense and exposes it to scrutiny, finding that the rehabilitative ideal was not so well-entrenched or all-encompassing as many have supposed. As Zedner (2002) has cautioned, the rehabilitative ideal was only ever an ‘ideal’.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Bailey V; Rise and Fall; Rehabilitative Ideal; 1895–1970;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
    Item ID: 20879
    Identification Number: 10.1177/1462474520941925
    Depositing User: Lynsey Black
    Date Deposited: 02 Dec 2025 15:30
    Journal or Publication Title: Punishment & Society
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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