Opening Schools and Closing Prisons: Caring for Destitute and Delinquent Children in Scotland 1812 - 1872

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

As a student at Glasgow University in the late 1970s, Andrew G. Ralston 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