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Although public concern over juvenile anti-social behaviour did not originate in the nineteenth century, it certainly became more apparent during the Victorian period (Gillis, 1975: 96). The ‘outburst of concern’ over juvenile delinquency was fuelled by the mass publication of pamphlets and enquiries denouncing an alarming rise in juvenile crime (Shore, 2002: 14; PP 1852 (6), vol XLI). As Britain experienced unprecedented social and economic changes, the great reports of the period represented one of the ways in which the nation could make sense of the dramatic transformations that were occurring. Observers who raised concerns about the effects of urbanization, the rise of poverty, the housing conditions of the working classes and the education of the masses, naturally turned their attention to the question of juvenile delinquency.
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Baudry-Paimer, A. (2014). Addressing Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour in Victorian England: Mary Carpenter and the Reformatory Schools. In: Pickard, S. (eds) Anti-social Behaviour in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399311_10
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