"The Reform of English Prison, 1773-1816"
Author: Richard Herrick Condon
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
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A History of English Prison Administration
Author: Sean Mcconville
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 1317373189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title, first published in 1981, draws from an extensive range of national and local material, and examines how innovations in policy and administration, while solving problems or setting new objectives, frequently created or disclosed fresh difficulties, and brought different types of people into the administration and management of prisons, whose interests, values and expectations in turn often had significant effects upon penal ideas and their practical applications. Special attention has been paid to the study of recruitment, the work and influence of gaolers, keepers, governors, and highly administrative officials. This comprehensive book will be of interest to students of criminology and history.
Qualities of Mercy
Author: Carolyn Strange
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0774841508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Qualities of Mercy deals with the history of mercy, the remittance of punishments in the criminal law. The writers probe the discretionary use of power and inquire how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law. Drawing on the history of England, Canada, and Australia in periods when both capital and corporal punishment were still practised, they show that contrary to common assumptions the past was not a time of unmitigated terror and they ask what inspired restraint in punishment. They conclude that the ability to decide who lived and died -- through the exercise or denial of mercy -- reinforced the power structure.
Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-30
Total Pages: 2951
ISBN-13: 1317369769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This set reissues ten books that explore the history of crime and punishment. The titles, which were originally published between 1970 and 1988, examine many different aspects of historical criminology over a span of over 400 years, with particular focus on the nineteenth-century. This set will be of particular interest to students of both history and criminology.
Theory and Methods in Criminal Justice History
Author: Eric H. Monkkonen
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text analyzes the theories and methodological problems inherent in the study of crime and justice in American history. The contributors assess the efficiency of justice, the relationship between war and crime, feminism and cultural influences.
History of Criminology
Author: Paul Elliott Rock
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work describes and illustrates the evolution of criminological theory in Britain and the US. The editor explains how a recognizable criminology emerged in the campaigns of penal reformers in the 18th and early 19th century, and was then studied as an academic field in the 20th century. The book intersperses writings of 300 years of criminology with criminological historians' own arguments about the development of their discipline.
The Reform of Prisoners
Author: Willam James Forsythe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1000156265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study, first published in 1987, focuses on Victorian approaches to the moral reformation of prisoners, and aims to emphasise the ways in which the human value and social inclusion of prisoners were pursued. The author begins by discussing the evangelical view of social problems and human value in early-industrial Britain as well as the ‘associationist’ psychological analysis of human attitude developed by theorists from John Locke to Jeremy Bentham. The workings of these two theoretical frameworks in the practice of British prisons are then analyses, arguing that by 1860 both theories were basic to the approach to the incarceration of wrongdoers. After 1860 the picture changed radically to an unambiguous deterrent severity. This was linked to a more ‘scientific’ and evolutionist analysis of human conduct and attitude; theological objections to reformism were also brought into play. In the last forty years of the nineteenth century prisoners came to be seen as constitutionally inferior beings for whom no hope of reform could be generally entertained. This title will be of interest to students of history and of criminology.
Legality, Ideology, and the State
Author: David Sugarman
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Karls Renner on socialist legality; Pashukanis and the comodity form theory; Legality and political legitimacy in the sociology of Max Weber; Gramsci, the state and the place of law; Law, legitimation and the advanced capitalist state: the jurisprudence and social theory of Jurgen Habermas; Law, plurality and underdevelopment; State, civil society and total institution: a critique of recent social histories of punishment; Law, economy and the state in England, 1750-1914: some major issues; Anarchism, marxism and the critique law.
French and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816
Author: Neil Davie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 3030838919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16). This is not the well-known Victorian convict prison, but a less familiar penal institution, conceived and built nearly half a century earlier in the midst of the long-running wars against France, and destined, not for criminals, but for French and later American prisoners of war. During a period of six and a half years, more than 20,000 captives passed through its gates. Drawing on contemporary official records from Britain, France and the USA, and a wealth of prisoners’ letters, diaries and memoirs (many of them studied here in detail for the first time), this book examines how Dartmoor War Prison was conceived and designed; how it was administered both from London and on the ground; how the fate of its prisoners intertwined with the military and diplomatic history of the period; and finally how those prisoners interacted with each other, with their captors, and with the wider community. The history of the prison on the moor is one marked by high hopes and noble intentions, but also of neglect, hardship, disease and death
List of Doctoral Dissertations in History Now in Progress at Universities in the United States and the Dominion of Canada
