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[Wontner, Thomas]. Old Bailey Experience. Criminal Jurisprudence and the Actual Working of our Penal Code of Laws. Also, An Essay on Prison Discipline, to Which is Added a History of the Crimes Committed by Offenders in the Present Day. By the Author of "The Schoolmaster's Experience in Newgate." London, J. Fraser, 1833. xi, 447 pp. Pebbled cloth, gilt title to spine, rebacked retaining existing backstrip, endpapers renewed, light foxing and soiling in several places. $175. * Only edition. Wontner, the son of John Wontner, governor of Newgate Prison, ascribes crime among the poor to "the errors of government, and the want of a controlling moral power in the country" (13). He argues that Britain's highly strict penal code, "sanguinary and uncertain," does not effectively deter crime. Instead, the poor must be educated and the rich must commit to meeting their needs with charity. …