Table of Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Chapter 1:

Punishment, reformation and prevention: changing attitudes to juvenile crime in mid-nineteenth century Britain

Chapter 2:

‘The lamentable extent of youthful depravity’: the Tron Riot of 1812

Chapter 3:

Stirrings for change: developments in Edinburgh, 1812-1846

Chapter 4:

‘An intermediate step’: the Glasgow House of Refuge, 1838-1854

Chapter 5:

Prevention is better than cure: the Aberdeen industrial schools, 1841-1854

Chapter 6:

Ragged school rivalry: the Original versus the United Industrial School in Edinburgh, 1847-1854

Chapter 7:

‘A better model’: the influence of the Scottish approach in England

Chapter 8:

The formation of a national system (i): reformatory and industrial schools legislation, 1854-1872

Chapter 9:
The formation of a national system (ii): the effects of legislation on individual schools

Chapter 10:

Schooling for all: industrial schools and the 1872 Education Act

Chapter 11:

Change and continuity: nineteenth century approaches in context

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Andrew G. Ralston, a student at Glasgow University in the late 1970s, was encouraged by the late Geoffrey Finlayson, author of the definitive biography of Lord Shaftesbury, to take an interest in the history of the treatment of destitute and delinquent children in nineteenth-century Scotland. Having completed a degree of D.Phil at Balliol College, Oxford University, he has subsequently co-authored over twenty successful school textbooks.