Published in 1862, this book is a comprehensive guide to crime and punishment in nineteenth-century London. Henry Mayhew (1812-87), a journalist and social reformer, argues for prison reform by demonstrating that all of London's penal institutions were ineffective in reforming criminals and did not adequately provide for the inmates.
Henry Mayhew's 1862 study of prisons is a comprehensive guide to criminal activity and penal institutions in nineteenth-century London.
