
Prof Barry Godfrey BA MA PhD FRHist.A JP
Professor of Social Justice Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
- Biography
- Research
- Publications
- Teaching and learning
- External engagement
Publications
Selected Publications
- Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances From 1850 (Book - 2017)
- Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities (Book - 2016)
- Policing the Factory: Theft, private policing and the law in Modern England (Book - 2013)
- Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending (Book - 2012)
- Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals (Book - 2010)
2019
Victorian convicts were fed a surprisingly sustaining diet (Internet publication)
Victorian systems will not solve modern prison health problems (Journal article)
2018
Fear of crime before 'fear of crime?' (Chapter)
Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict labour in the Australian context (Journal article)
Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830-1877 (Journal article)
Life-courses of young convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Thesis / Dissertation)
Tracking the Gendered Life Courses of Care Leavers in 19th-Century Britain (Journal article)
2017
Violence (Chapter)
Workplace crime (Chapter)
Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances From 1850 (Book)
2016
Bringing the Prisoner into View: English and Welsh Census Data and the Victorian Prison Population (Journal article)
Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities (Book)
Liquid crime history: Digital entrepreneurs and the industrial production of ‘ruined lives’ (Chapter)
Soldiers as Victims, 1914-2014 (Chapter)
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN POLICE, 1780-1914, pt 1 (Journal article)
Victorian Convicts 100 Criminal Lives (Book)
2014
Black Market Britain, 1939-1955 (Journal article)
Crime and justice 1750–1950 (Book)
Intergenerational offending in Liverpool and the north-west of England, 1850-1914 (Journal article)
On licence: Understanding punishment, recidivism and desistance in penal policy, 1853-1945 (Chapter)
Report on the select committee of the house of commons on madhouses 1815 (Chapter)
War as an opportunity for divergence and desistance from crime, 1750-1945 (Chapter)
2013
A Historical Perspective on Criminal Justice Responses to Female and Male Offending (Chapter)
Counterblast: The Perennial Problem of Short Prison Sentences (Journal article)
Crime and empire: Introduction (Chapter)
Crime in England, 1880-1945: The rough and the criminal, the policed and the incarcerated (Book)
Policing the Factory: Theft, private policing and the law in Modern England (Book)
2012
'Protecting the Population: bureaucracy, affectivity and governing the Liverpool Blitz' (Chapter)
At the crossroads, but which way to go? (Chapter)
Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending (Book)
Discipline (Chapter)
The 'convict stain': Desistence in the penal colony (Chapter)
2011
Critical Historical Perspectives on Crime (Chapter)
Historical and Archival Research Methods (Chapter)
Private Policing and the Workplace: The Worsted Committee and the Policing of Labour in Northern England, 1840-80 (Chapter)
2010
Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals (Book)
2009
'"The most troublesome woman in Crewe" : Crime, gender and sentencing, 1880-1940' (Chapter)
The role of historically-embedded structures in processes of criminal reform (Journal article)
2008
Changing Prosecution Practices and their Impact on Crime Figures, 1857-1940 (Journal article)
History and Crime (Book)
‘The Last Fleet’: Crime, Reformation, and Punishment in Western Australia After 1868 (Journal article)
2007
'Setting the Scene: The History of Victims' (Chapter)
Criminal Lives: Family, Employment and Offending (Book)
Violence and disorder, 1880-1914: Similar trends, similar offences and similar explanations? (Chapter)
`Persistent offenders in the North West of England, 1880-1940: Some critical research questions' (Journal article)
2006
British Journal of Criminology: Introduction (Journal article)
Markets, Risk and 'White-collar' Crimes: Moral Economies from Victorian times to Enron (Book)
Ontological Boundaries and Temporal Watersheds in the Development of White-Collar Crime (Journal article)
`Community `Law', Policing, and the Structures of Legitimacy' (Journal article)
2005
Cinderellas and Packhorses: the Shropshire Bench (Book)
Crime and Empire: Criminal justice in global and local context 1840-1940 (Book)
Crime and Justice, 1750-1950 (Book)
Explaining Gendered Sentencing Patterns for Violent Men and Women in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Period (Journal article)
The growth of crime and crime control in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850–1920 (Chapter)
`Explaining gendered sentencing patterns for violent men and women in the late Victorian and Edwardian period' (Journal article)
2004
'Loss, collective memory and transcripted oral histories' (Chapter)
Loss, collective memory and transcripted oral histories (Journal article)
Persistence in Crime and the Impact of Significant Life-Changes (Chapter)
Self-identity, empathy, and sympathy in reading transcripts (Chapter)
`"Rough" Girls: The `recent' history of violent young women, 1900-1930' (Chapter)
2003
'Towards ethical practice in the use of transcribed oral interviews' (Journal article)
Comparative Histories of Crime (Book)
Counting and Accounting for the Decline in Non-Lethal Violence in England, Australia, and New Zealand, 1880-1920 (Journal article)
Introduction: Do you have planespotters in New Zealand? Issues in comparative crime history at the turn of modernity (Chapter)
Towards ethical practice in the use of archived transcripted interviews (Journal article)
`Dear Reader I killed him': Ethical and emotional issues in researching convicted murderers through the analysis of interview transcripts' (Journal article)
`Sentencing, Theatre, Audience and Communication: The Victorian and Edwardian magistrates' courts and their message' (Chapter)
2002
Private Policing and the Workplace: The Worsted Committee and the Policing of Labour in Northern England, 1840-80 (Journal article)
2001
Ethics and transcribed oral history (Journal article)
Jack the Ripper and fin de siecle anxiety: `Re-positioning agency (Journal article)
The nineteenth-century decline of custom and its impact on theories of `workplace theft' and `white collar' crime (Journal article)
1999
Judicial Impartiality and the Use of the Criminal Law: The West Riding Magistracy and the Sentencing of workplace appropriators, 1840-80 (Journal article)
Law, factory discipline and 'theft': the impact of the factory on workplace appropriation in mid to late nineteenth-century Yorkshire (Journal article)
The Impact of the Factory on Workplace Appropriation in the Nineteenth-Century (Journal article)
Workplace Appropriation and the Gendering of Factory "Law": West Yorkshire, 1840-80 (Chapter)
1998
"That's the History of the Mills": Studying the working experiences of mill women, 1840-1950 (Journal article)
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