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Imprisonment in England and Wales : a concise history

Title
Imprisonment in England and Wales : a concise history / Christopher Harding [and others].
Publication
London ; Dover, N.H. : Croom Helm, ©1985.

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Book/TextUse in library HV9644 .I47 1985Off-site

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Additional Authors
Harding, Christopher, 1951-
Description
xiii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Geschichte 1020-1982
  • Imprisonment > England > History
  • Imprisonment > Wales > History
  • Prisons > England > History
  • Prisons > Wales > History
  • 15.00 history: general
  • 86.44 penitentiary law
  • Imprisonment
  • Prisons
  • Freiheitsstrafe
  • Gefängnis
  • Geschichte
  • Strafvollzug
  • Gevangenissen
  • Imprisonment > Great Britain > History
  • Prisons > Great Britain > History
  • England
  • Wales
  • Großbritannien
  • Wales
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • History (form)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
The structure and organisation of imprisonment -- The population and conditions within prisons -- Developments in punishment -- The prison system -- The rediscovery of the prison -- Reformation or punishment? -- The organisation of a state prison system -- Types of prison sentence and the prison regime -- The social functions of imprisonment.
ISBN
  • 0709912943
  • 9780709912941
LCCN
85014948
OCLC
  • ocm12214388
  • 12214388
  • SCSB-1151962
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library