Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
The belief that prisoners corrupted each other by sharing criminal skills and stories in overcrowded, mixed gaols.
Criminal contamination appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Case Studies: Pentonville Prison and Robert Peel.
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