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Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts (version 2)

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Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts (version 2)

Thomas Holmes

The author spent twenty years as a "police court missionary" (the forerunner of the modern probation officer) for the London courts. He tells us that he sat down and "cried like a child" at the end of his first day, but eventually he came to realise that "a field for the study of human nature is opened up, and nowhere in the wide world is there a field equal to it". A sympathetic man with a self-deprecating sense of humour. NOTE: A "ticket-of-leave" was a form of parole document given to a prisoner to allow him or her limited freedom outside the prison. - Summary by Peter Yearsley

Year of Publication: 1902Genres: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) , Modern (19th C)
Running Time: 08 hours 31 minutes 18 seconds
#Chapter Name
1
The Nights
Chapter 1: How I became a police court missionary
Peter Yearsley
30:43
2
The Nights
Chapter 2: In Lambeth police court
Peter Yearsley
19:05
3
The Nights
Chapter 3: A change for the better
Peter Yearsley
36:42
4
The Nights
Chapter 4: Husbands and wives
Peter Yearsley
47:07
5
The Nights
Chapter 5: Parents and children
Peter Yearsley
44:32
6
The Nights
Chapter 6: Record-breakers: Jane Cakebread
Peter Yearsley
30:13
7
The Nights
Chapter 7: Record-breakers: Kate Henessey
Peter Yearsley
50:17
8
The Nights
Chapter 8: Among dipsomaniacs
Peter Yearsley
36:39
9
The Nights
Chapter 9: Criminals - part one
Peter Yearsley
34:39
10
The Nights
Chapter 9: Criminals - part two
Peter Yearsley
32:59
11
The Nights
Chapter 10: Cranks
Peter Yearsley
43:06
12
The Nights
Chapter 11: The Arcadians and some account of the 'Gubbins'
Peter Yearsley
17:37
13
The Nights
Chapter 12 - How the poor live - and die - part one
Peter Yearsley
31:04
14
The Nights
Chapter 12 - How the poor live - and die - part two
Peter Yearsley
28:59
15
The Nights
Chapter 13 - The problem of home workers
Peter Yearsley
27:36

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