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The punitive obsession: an unvarnished history of the English prison system.

Title: The punitive obsession: an unvarnished history of the English prison system.
Author: Playfair, Giles, 1910-
Publication: London, Gollancz, 1971.

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Description

285 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Prisons > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 269-276.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Deterrence and extermination -- The reformative idea -- The Millbank experiment -- The prison hulks -- The Pentonville experiment -- The common gaols under local government -- Local prisons under central government -- Penal servitude -- Women and children -- The Gladstone Committee -- Alexander Paterson and after -- The penal heritage.

ISBN

0575006110

LCCN

^^^72584707^

OCLC

160864
SCSB-10256904

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library