Nipping Crime in the Bud How the Philanthropic Quest Was Put Into Law
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Dr. Muriel Whitten has been a youth and fam ily court magistrate and a member of West Sussex Probation Committee. She has lectured widely on criminal justice matters at Gold smith's and Birkbeck (University of London), the University of Ulster and has presented for CENTREX (now the National Policing Improvement Agency). She has also contributed a weekly column to the Belfast News Letter. Rob Allen is the Director of the International Institute for Prison Studies.'Nipping Crime in the Bud is a fascinating read. It combines history, criminology, politics, the law and philosophy and yet tells an absorbing tale that one could find in any of the main stream non-academic book charts': Euro Vista. 'Describes in colourful detail the background to the founding of the Society and how its founders and their successors worked. It explains how their plans were put into practice, how they governed and how they acquired support. It skilfully deals with questions that are still asked today such as to what extent are children to be held responsible for wrongdoing? ... Dr Whitten is admirably suited to write such a book ... [and] her knowledge and experience are distilled in this comprehensive and well-written book': John Hostettler, legal historian.