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Bastardy in the UK
Author(s) -
Spiegelhalter David
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.00051.x
Subject(s) - sociology , history , criminology , psychology , operations research , mathematics
Joseph Fletcher's monumental articles “Moral and educational statistics of England and Wales” were introduced as “a few facts illustrative of the moral and intellectual condition of the English people”, but went on to 237 pages of analysis and discussion of data on, for example, education, crime, “improvident marriages”, bastardy, pauperism and savings. The data are reported for individual counties and are notable for their illustration with early examples of shaded maps of relative rates.