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Tables of Contents for Adventures in Criminology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
x
1
Foreword
xi
3
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls
Acknowledgements
xiv
1 At the creation
1
25
The Maestro
1
3
The status quo
4
5
New horizons
9
5
The design of a Code of Social Defence
14
5
The demise of criminological positivism
19
7
2 From an active volcano to a well-ordered scenery
26
22
Return to Geneva
26
4
Swiss old and new ways
30
2
Carl Stooss
32
1
Searching for a via-media
33
3
Going beyond traditional punishment
36
2
Social defence slides into social aggression
38
3
The pioneer left behind his oeuvre
41
2
Some preconditions for penal progress
43
5
3 Towards a medical model of criminal justice
48
23
Pressures for change in Belgium
48
6
Criminal anthropology at work
54
8
Dr Louis Vervaeck
Anthropological penitentiary services
Psychiatric annexes
Devising a penal network
62
4
Psychiatrists at the penal helm
66
5
4 A penological cul-de-sac
71
9
An uninspiring academic cast
71
1
A reactionary Ministry of Justice
72
1
Moving towards authoritarianism
73
1
Involvement and frustration
74
3
A put-up job to discredit me
77
1
My departure
77
1
Jumping ahead in time: tempting me to return to Poland (1945) and a disappointing visit (1978)
78
2
5 Trying to break down traditional barriers
80
31
My mission to England
80
1
Paradoxical and unique institutions
81
5
New directions in sentencing policy
86
5
Grappling with persistent offenders
91
13
The young-adult recidivist
The habitual and professional criminal
The mentally defective
A landmark in penal legislation
104
7
6 The socio-liberal approach to criminal policy
111
21
Idealism versus realism
111
3
An environment conducive to continued penal reform
114
5
The threat of reversal
119
3
Retribution-deterrence-reformation: could a balance be struck?
122
3
Two Home Secretaries: two contrasting profiles
125
5
Epilogue
130
2
7 Reaching the harbour
132
32
My debt to the Howard League for Penal Reform
132
1
My first English friend
133
2
The Cambridge legacy in criminal science
135
6
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen: a rigid Victorian
Courtney Stanhope Kenny: a more subtle Edwardian
The first step
141
2
Six thrusts to indicate the relevance of criminology to criminal law
143
10
Time for some personal work
153
11
8 Putting criminology on the national map
164
28
Mr Butler takes charge of the Home Office
164
4
He resolves to become a reforming Home Secretary
168
4
Criminological research built into the Home Office
172
3
The grounding of independent criminological research and teaching
175
17
The initial step
The first hurdle
The second hurdle
The course still bumpy
9 Making it work: infusing reality into an idea
192
53
Some false assumptions
192
8
The Cambridge Institute of Criminology
200
37
Inter-disciplinary foundation
The postgraduate course
Doctorates in criminology
Undergraduate teaching
Building bridges with the practical world: the Advanced Course in Criminology
Another bridge: the Cropwood Fellowships
Yet another bridge: Cropwood Round-Table Conferences
Visiting Fellows to the Institute
Programme of research
Miscellaneous but connected activities
National Conferences of Research and Teaching in Criminology
Cambridge Studies in Criminology
Building an international library of criminology
Concluding remarks
Welcomed recognitions
237
2
Essential acknowledgements
239
3
Lord Butler: a few scattered reminiscences
242
3
10 The awkward question of capital punishment
245
35
The six inconclusive but revealing stages
245
7
A deep-rooted schism disclosed
A glimmer of hope
A painful rebuff
A resurgence of abolitionist pressures
Followed by a humiliating rejection
The government in the dock
The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1949-53: a new departure or a move `to delay' and `to postpone'?
252
8
The Chairman and the Secretary
Some of its members
The search for solutions
260
3
Reaching the end of the road
263
5
Yet a further period of equivocation
268
6
My further unexpected involvement in the subject
274
4
A very high potential for ferocity
278
2
11 An issue which refuses to go away
280
14
A bolt of lightning
280
2
Inspirations for change: humanity, religion, politics
282
4
Totalitarian distortions
286
2
The deadly weight of the United States
288
3
Forces of resistance
291
3
12 A prison system in crisis
294
28
A great escape
294
3
The perplexing concept of security
297
2
Lord Mountbatten takes command
299
4
Challenging Mountbatten's solution
303
4
Moving towards a British Alcatraz?
307
3
Mountbatten's report in abeyance
310
3
The zigzags of Mr Roy Jenkins
313
5
Rules of fairness to be observed when passing judgment on an inquiry
318
4
13 A fruitful approach to penal reform
322
11
Setting up an Advisory Council
322
2
An influential and dedicated group
324
3
A twenty-year involvement
327
4
No need for apology
331
2
14 The death of a Royal Commission
333
20
My early misgivings
333
4
Trying to avoid a catastrophe
337
4
On a collision course with the Home Office
341
3
Moving towards disintegration
344
2
The need to `revise' Lord Windlesham's account of how the end came about
346
5
The final lesson
351
2
15 Seeking international solutions
353
52
The big issue out of the way
354
3
First steps towards penal co-operation
357
2
Governmental sponsorship of an international commission
359
5
Cracks and collapse
364
5
A plethora of voluntary initiatives
369
7
Penal standards and the League of Nations
376
4
Lending a hand at the United Nations
380
7
New congresses -- old problems
387
7
Lending a hand at the Council of Europe
394
8
Summing-up
402
3
16 Some forays abroad and at home
405
21
Consultative work
405
11
Australia
South Africa
New York
Washington
Preaching the criminological gospel
416
5
Helping to transplant a foreign institution into English soil
421
3
A surprised co-midwife
424
2
17 A grim penal outlook
426
14
The authoritarian model
426
3
Tensions and dilemmas in democratic societies
429
11
18 A brief for criminology
440
30
This `barbarous neologism'
440
1
The sterile search for the causes of crime
441
7
Limitations and prospects
448
22
Index of Names
470