Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route to Australia,

Victorian Prison Lives is the first account of the process of imprisionment in England between 1830 and 1914 to be drawn largely from the writings of prisoners

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the inte

An account of changing conceptions and treatments of criminality in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.