Victor Bailey is the Distinguished Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kansas and Director of the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities (2000-2017). He was educated at the Centre for the Study of Social History, Warwick University, and the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. Among other appointments, he was a research officer at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, and a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author or editor of Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain (1981; 2016), Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914-1948 (1987), This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City (1998), Charles Booth's Policemen: Crime, Police and Community in London (2014), The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895-1970 (2019), and Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment, vols. I to IV (2022). He was a contributor to the collection published as Protest and Survival: Essays for E.P. Thompson (1993).