| Description |
[xx], 213 pages : maps, portrait ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Studies in crime and public policy |
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Studies in crime and public policy.
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| Contents |
Part 1. Norfolk Island, 1840-1844 -- Part 2. Maconochie and Norfolk Island after 1844 -- Part 3. Why do prison conditions matter? -- Part 4. Contemporary lessons from Maconochie's experiment: Fixed or indeterminate sentences and good time -- Graduated release procedures and aftercare -- The Worst of the worst -- Punishment and the mentally ill -- Deterrance, rehabilitation, and prison conditions |
| Summary |
"In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen."" "Here Norval Morris offers an account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enchancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Series editors: Michael Tonry and Norval Morris |
| Subject |
Maconochie, Alexander, 1787-1860.
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Penal colonies -- Australia -- Norfolk Island -- History.
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Prison reformers -- Australia -- Norfolk Island -- Biography.
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Penal colonies -- Norfolk Island -- History.
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Penal colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
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Prison reformers -- Norfolk Island -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79150421 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History.
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Biography
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001021377 |
| ISBN |
0195146077 |
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