Guard book of material relating to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire prisons, policing and juvenile delinquency Letters, printed material and manuscript notes relating to: prisons; policing; juvenile delinquency, reformatory, ragged and industrial schools; vagrancy; and licensing in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Also reference material on the same subjects from other locations. Prisons material - General material relating to prisons and sentencing (DD2397/1-2, 59-61, 69, 93, 124, 196 ) - Material relating to Aberdeen Prison (DD2397/9-10, 18) - Letters from staff at Aberdeen and Peterhead Prisons (DD2397/ 14-15, 51-52, 54, 56-57) - Report by the Governor of Aberdeen Prison (DD2397/3, 64) - County of Aberdeen Prison Board material (DD2397/2, 4-5, 7, 9, 19-20, 49, 53, 59, 62-63, 71-74,146, 193) - Printed Reports Respecting the Prisons in the County of Aberdeen 1846, 1849 - 1859 (DD2397/12-13, 22, 24, 29, 36, 41, 43, 65-68, 79-80, 170, 188-190, 200) - County of Aberdeen Prison Board Account of Revenue and Expenditure (DD2397/21, 70, 122, 177, 191) - Material relating to tickets of leave (DD2397/125, 167-168, 171-172) Policing material - County of Aberdeen Rural Constabulary Force Returns of Crimes and Offences, Convictions and Vagrant, Hawkers and Tinkers apprehended, 1841-1848, 1850-1853, 1855-1858 (DD2397/26-28, 48, 81-88, 90-92, 98, 126, 174, 187) - County of Aberdeen Rural Constabulary Abstract of Expense 102 - County of Aberdeen Rural Constabulary Force General Orders and other instructions (DD2397/103-105, 107-111, 113-114, 116-118, 184-185) - County of Aberdeen Rural Police Committee material (DD2397/77, 99, 106, 115, 121, 127) - Letters from Aberdeen Superintendent of Police (DD2397/ 58 ) - Letters from Aberdeenshire Superintendent of Police (DD2397/112, 115, 153, 167, 171-172 ) Juvenile offenders and reformatory, ragged and industrial schools material - Material relating to juvenile delinquency and offenders (DD2397/5, 47, 49, 62-63, 74-76, 134, 136-137, 143, 146, 149, 150, 160, 179-181) - Juvenile Prisoner Lists (for Old Machar and St Nicholas parishes, and those committed to prison in Aberdeen) (DD2397/31-35, 37-40, 44-46, 56, 58) - Material on reformatory, ragged and industrial schools (DD2397/ 11, 17, 23, 130-133, 135, 139, 144, 153, 155, 158, 161, 165-166, 182-183, 197) - Material relating to the Reformatory and Refuge Union (DD2397/159, 162-164, 173, 178, 182) - Aberdeen House of Refuge (founded 1836) (DD2397/ 50, 142, 152, 154) - Aberdeen School of Industry for Boys (founded 1841) (DD2397/ 138) - Aberdeen Juvenile School of Industry (school founded 1845) (DD2397/ 141) - Aberdeen Child's Asylum (founded 1846) (DD2397/140, 145, 147) - Oldmill Reformatory School, Aberdeen (DD2397/152, 156, 157, 176) - Material relating to licensing (DD2397/8, 55, 77, 201) - Material relating to vagrancy and begging (DD2397/74, 94-96, 98, 101) - Material relating to Volunteer Corps (DD2397/198-199, 202) - Aberdeen Sherriff Proclamation re. dogs (DD2397/119-120) Material from outside Aberdeenshire: - Reports on Houses of Correction in Yorkshire (DD2397/151) and Monmouthshire (DD2397/140) - Kincardineshire report on lunatic criminals, proclamation on vagrancy, and account of assessments (DD2397/6, 94, 175) - Perth County Police Returns (DD2397/194-195) and Perth Ragged School (DD2397/133) - Crime Statistics East District Renfrewshire (DD2397/ 78) - East Lothian Police staffing (DD2397/186) The items have been assembled in a guard book at some stage, and individual items have been assigned numbers during the cataloguing process. The numbers 100 and 169 were not used. 1840s - 1850s