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Norval (Hrsg.) Morris

The Oxford History of the Prison

The Practice of Punishment in Western Society

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The word prison immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institutionstretching from medieval stone dungeons to the current era of steel boxes. But centuries of development and debate lie behind the prison as we now know it--a rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time. In The Oxford History of the Prison, a team of distinguished scholars offers a vivid account of the… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Rothman, David J. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-511814-8
  • EAN: 9780195118148
  • Produktnummer: 22685697
  • Verlag: Oxford Academic
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
  • Seitenangabe: 440 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.8 cm 673 g
  • Abbildungen: frontispiece, 8 pp plates
  • Gewicht: 673

Über den Autor


Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine the College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as Professor of History at Columbia University.

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