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1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) |
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Part 1. Mid-century penal crisis : -- 1. W.R. Greg, "The Management and Disposal of Our Criminal Population," 1854, excerpts -- 2. "Meeting of Ticket-of-Leave Men," Morning Chronicle, 1856 -- 3. The Times on garrotting crime and ticket-of-leaves, 1862 -- 4. The Times on penal servitude and ticket-of-leave system, 1862 -- 5. Lord Carnarvon to Herman Merivale, 2 Dec. 1862 -- 6. M.D. Hill to Lord Brougham, 4 Dec. 1862 -- Part 2. Shaping the convict prison : -- 7. "Female Convicts, Brixton, 1858: Unruly Behaviour," Reports of the Directors of Convict Prisons on the Discipline and Management of ... Prisons, 1859 -- 8. "Outbreak among the Convicts at Chatham," The Times, 19 Jan. 1861 -- 9. "Revolt of the Convicts at Chatham," The Times, 13 Feb. 1861 -- 10. W.A. Guy, "On Some Results of a Recent Census of the Population of the Convict Prisons in England," 1862 -- 11. C.B. Adderley, "On the Late Reports on Transportation and Penal Servitude: and on Prison Discipline," 1863 -- 12. Walter Crofton, "Criminal Treatment -- Its Principles," 1868 -- 13. Walter Crofton, The Criminal Classes and Their Control, 1868 -- Part 3. Punishment of juveniles : -- 14. William Crawford, Inspector of Prisons, on Parkhurst prison for juveniles, 1839 -- 15. "Mettray," The Athenaeum, 21 Mar. 1846 -- 16. Sydney Turner, "Juvenile Delinquency," Edinburgh Review, 1851, excerpts -- 17. M.D. Hill on discharging delinquents to parents and employers, 1847 -- 18. Mary Carpenter, "On the Importance of Statistics to the Reformatory Movement, with Returns from Female Reformatories," 1857 -- 19. W.V. Harcourt on parental notice before forced emigration or enlistment of reformatory and industrial school inmates, 1884-1885 -- Part 4. Political prisoners : -- 20. Reports by inspectors of prisons on cases of all political offenders in custody on 1 Jan. 1841 -- 21. George White to Mark Norman, Kirkdale Gaol, 10 Oct. 1849, excerpt -- 22. Statement by Lady Constance Lytton on the forcible feeding of suffragettes, Jan. 1910 -- 23. Sylvia Pankhurst, "Prison Life and Women," The Times, 18 June 1910 -- 24. Wilfred Scawen Blunt's memo to Churchill, 24 Feb. 1910 -- 25. Arthur Creech Jones, "Manuscript Account of His Thoughts on Prison," c. 1916-1919 -- Part 5. Prisons under scrutiny : -- 26. Sir William Harcourt on the decline of the prison population, 1884 -- 27. W.D. Morrison, "Are Our Prisons a Failure?" Fortnightly Review, 1894 -- 28. Michael Davitt, "Criminal and Prison Reform," The Nineteenth Century, 1894 -- 29. Eliza Orme, "Prison Reform (II): Our Female Criminals," Fortnightly Review, 1898 -- 30. E. Du Cane, "The Prisons Bill and Progress in Criminal Treatment," The Nineteenth Century, 1898 -- Part 6. The indeterminate prison sentence : -- 31. M.D. Hill, "On the Objections Incident to Sentences of Imprisonment for Limited Periods," 1870 -- 32. Rev. A. Osborne Jay, The Social Problem: Its Possible Solution, 1893, excerpts -- 33. Robert Anderson, "Our Absurd System of Punishing Crime," The Nineteenth Century, 1901 -- 34. J.F. Sutherland, Recidivism: Habitual Criminality, and Habitual Petty Delinquency, 1908, excerpts -- 35. Report from the Departmental Committee on Prisons, 1895 -- Part 7. De-centring the prison : -- 36. Sir Godfrey Lushington before the Gladstone Committee, 1895, excerpts -- 37. Charles E.B. Russell, "Some Aspects of Female Criminality and Its Treatment," 1912 -- 38. Winston Churchill's plan to abate imprisonment, 1910 -- 39. E. Ruggles-Brise on the borstal system, 1910 -- Part 8. Demise of separate confinement : -- 40. John Galsworthy's open letter to Home Secretary Gladstone on solitary confinement, 1909 -- 41. C.E. Troup and Herbert Gladstone on separate confinement, 1909 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Prisons -- 19th century
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Prisoners -- 19th century
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Crime -- 19th century
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Crime.
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Prisoners.
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Prisons.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429995590 |
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0429995598 |
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