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In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the political agenda. In 2016, the Howard League for Penal Reform an organization that has energetically lobbied for improvements in the treatment of offenders throughout its lifetime celebrated its 150th anniversary.

This book considers the life and work of Margery Fry, the woman who created the modern Howard League and dominated it from 1918 until her death in 1958, and places the UKs oldest surviving penal reform pressure group and its current work into their historical context. It examines Frys legacy as a campaigner for an international standard of prisoners minimum rights, which resulted in a United Nations charter, for the introduction of compensation for victims of criminal injuries, and for the abolition of the death penalty, and also considers her role in the establishment of criminology as an academic discipline and her organization of the first criminology lectures in Great Britain. It is essential reading for all those engaged in prisons research, penal reform and criminal justice history.

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The Politics of Penal Reform
In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the political agenda. In 2016, the Howard League for Penal Reform an organization that has energetically lobbied for improvements in the treatment of offenders throughout its lifetime celebrated its 150th anniversary.
This book considers the life and work of Margery Fry, the woman who created the modern Howard League and dominated it from 1918 until her death in 1958, and places the UKs oldest surviving penal reform pressure group and its current work into their historical context. It examines Frys legacy as a campaigner for an international standard of prisoners minimum rights, which resulted in a United Nations charter, for the introduction of compensation for victims of criminal injuries, and for the abolition of the death penalty, and also considers her role in the establishment of criminology as an academic discipline and her organization of the first criminology lectures in Great Britain. It is essential reading for all those engaged in prisons research, penal reform and criminal justice history.
Anne Logan is Senior Lecturer in Social History at the University of Kent, UK.
Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
Edited by Kim Stevenson, University of Plymouth; Judith Rowbotham, University of Plymouth; David Nash, Oxford Brookes University and David J. Cox, University of Wolverhampton
This series is a collaboration between Routledge and the SOLON consortium (promoting studies in law, crime and history), to present cutting edge interdisciplinary research in crime and criminal justice history, through monographs and thematic collected editions which reflect on key issues and dilemmas in criminology and socio-legal studies by locating them within a historical dimension. The emphasis here is on inspiring use of historical and historiographical methodological approaches to the contextualising and understanding of current priorities and problems. This series aims to highlight the best, most innovative interdisciplinary work from both new and established scholars in the field, through focusing on the enduring historical resonances to current core criminological and socio-legal issues.
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-SOLON-Explorations-in-Crime-and-Criminal-Justice-Histories/book-series/HCCJ
6 The Police and the Expansion of Public Order Law in Britain, 18292014
Iain Channing
7 Public Indecency in England 18571960
A Serious and Growing Evil
David J. Cox, Kim Stevenson, Candida Harris and Judith Rowbotham
8 A History of Forensic Science
British beginnings in the twentieth century
Alison Adam
9 Leading the Police
A History of Chief Constables 18352017
Edited by Kim Stevenson, David J. Cox and Iain Channing
10 The Politics of Penal Reform
Margery Fry and the Howard League
Anne Logan
The Politics of Penal Reform
Margery Fry and the Howard League
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Logan, Anne, 1957- author.
Title: The politics of penal reform : Margery Fry and the Howard League / Anne Logan.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; NewYork, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories ; 10 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017031422 | ISBN 9781138039377 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315175928 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Fry, Margery, 1874-1958. | Howard League for Penal Reform. | Prison reformers--Great Britain--Biography. | Punishment--Great Britain--History. | Prisons--Great Britain--History. | Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain--History.
Classification: LCC HV8978.F73 L64 2018 | DDC 365/.7092 [B] --dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017031422
ISBN: 978-1-138-03937-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-17592-8 (ebk)
This book is an essential contribution to the history of our country and a handbook on how to achieve social reform. It is a tribute to the life and work of one woman but illustrates that too many important women are written out of the history books and their contributions marginalised or ignored. Margery Fry was a whirlwind of energy, working on prisons, education and international issues, and her story needs to be told.
Women have been the drivers of penal reform, as in many other areas of the struggle for social justice. The imprisonment and brutal treatment of suffragists gave middle-class women an experience that transformed their understanding of the criminal justice system and energised the call for penal reform. The roots of the Penal Reform League were planted in this feminist movement, and when Margery Fry succeeded in amalgamating this small group with the equally small but better-established Howard Association, that radical ideological underpinning wove its way into the fabric of the new organisation, and was continued by another doughty woman, Cecily Craven, for two decades.
While prison conditions from the pre-First World War period to the 1930s were grim, at least the number of people affected was relatively small. The average prison population has increased from just over 17,400 in 1900 to just over 85,300 in 2016. This increase started in the 1950s and 1960s, but the number of men, women and children in prison rose sharply from the mid-1990s, significantly out of proportion to the rise in the general population. Despite or perhaps because of injections of public money and a building programme, the number of incarcerated people continued to increase and conditions continued to be inhumane.
There was no way that a small voluntary group could stem the onslaught of political exploitation of crime and prisoners for short-term electoral gain. The visceral nature of the politics of crime and punishment since the Second World War has led to an inflation in the number of people sucked into the corrections industry. The role of groups like the Howard League for Penal Reform has been to stand in the way of the torrent, to bear witness to its injustice, to mitigate its excesses and to try to stem the flow.
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