Victor Bailey

Background

About Victor Bailey

Victor Bailey is the Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of Modern British History, and Director of the Joyce & Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities, at the University of Kansas. He has degrees from the Centre for the Study of Social History, University of Warwick, and Cambridge University. He was a research officer at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford, and a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and at Worcester College, Oxford. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation has supported his research. He is the author of Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914-1948 (Oxford University Press, 1987) and ‘This Rash Act:’ Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City (Stanford University Press, 1998), and editor of Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain (Rutgers University Press, 1981). He recently published the following two books: Order and Disorder in Modern Britain: Essays on Riot, Crime, Policing and Punishment; and Charles Booth’s Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in Jack-the-Ripper’s London.