Volume 4 addresses the problems posed by education and crime to society and the ways in which the state sought to legislate in its search for public order. The three chapters on education consider the periods before and after the passage of Education Act 1870 that, for the first time, established a national system of elementary education and takes developments through to the legislation in 1944 that established the tripartite system. In addition to schooling for the working-classes, education for the middle- and upper-class and girls are examined. There are three chapters on crime, punishment and policing. Chapter 4 looks at developments in the nature of crime with a particular focus on women and crime. This is followed by discussion of the evolution of the court system and trial procedures and the changing nature of punishment with the shift away from public capital punishment and transportation to imprisonment in custom-built prisons. The book ends with a chapter on policing that examines the reasons why the Metropolitan Police force was established in 1829 and how policing developed in boroughs and in the counties in the decades that followed.

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