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Punishment and civilization : penal tolerance and intolerance in modern society / John Pratt.
- Title
- Punishment and civilization : penal tolerance and intolerance in modern society / John Pratt.
- Author
- Pratt, John.
- Publication
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6947 .P73 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Punishment and Civilization examines how a framework of punishment that suited the values and standards of the civilized world came to be set in place from around 1800 to the late 20th century.
- Alternative Title
- Punishment & civilization
- Subject
- Punishment > England > History
- Imprisonment > England > History
- Prisons > England > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-208) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Carnival, Execution and Civilization -- 3. The Disappearance of Prison -- 4. The Amelioration of Prison Life -- 5. The Sanitization of Penal Language -- 6. The Memories of Prisoners -- 7. Bureaucratization and Indifference -- 8. The Breakdown of Civilization -- 9. The Gulag and Beyond.
- ISBN
- 0761947523
- 0761947531 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2002102282
- OCLC
- 49593432
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library