Maconochie's Gentlemen
The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform
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, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-534705-0
- EAN: 9780195347050
- Produktnummer: 13859833
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 986 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 halftones & maps
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Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of The Oxford History of the Prison and the author of The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law. In 2000, he received both the American Society of Criminology's Edwin E. Sutherland Award and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency's Donald Cressey Award.
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