What is it about?
An article which reveals the damaging emotional and mental harms that have been largely neglected in the scholarship of the British borstal system in the 1930s.
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Why is it important?
The article challenges how the borstal system has usually been depicted in the Paterson era of reform in the 1930s.
Perspectives
I hope this article will encourage readers to appreciate the complexity of youth experiences in borstal in the 1930s and also to think about how these accounts of poor mental health and disempowerment still have resonance in the contemporary criminal justice system.
Professor Melanie Tebbutt
Manchester Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: QUESTIONING THE RHETORIC OF BRITISH BORSTAL REFORM IN THE 1930s, The Historical Journal, October 2019, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x19000372.
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