a line of response which began at the end of the 18th century. Nipping Crime in the Bud explores: the origins and development of the England's Philanthropic Society (and its influence on contemporary institutions) amid growing alarm about crime levels; Draconian sentences under England's Bloody Code; and a paucity of effective crime prevention measures. Driven by Enlightenment zeal and ideals, the philanthropic society was the first voluntary-sector charity devoted to 'nipping crime in the bud.' It did so through education, training, accommodation, mentoring, and support for young people. Uniquely, the book traces the first hard-won policy networks and partnerships between government and the voluntary sector. It reveals how - sometimes against the odds, with funding on a knife edge, but constantly striving for effective answers - influential philanthropists rose to the challenge and changed approaches to young people involved in crime and delinquency, traces of which endure today within the great crime prevention charities which still rally to this cause.

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