English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to DeathThe local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years local imprisonment to be the most severe punishment known to English law: "next only to death". This work examines how private perceptions and concerns became public policy. It also traces the move in English government from the rural and aristocratic to the urban and more democratic. It follows the rise of the powerful elite of the higher civil service, describes some of the forces that attempted to oppose it, and provides a window through which to view the process of state formation. |
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... Parliament as the Commons , since the latter now totally dominates the Lords . For most ideological and practical purposes , Britain has a unicameral system of government . But in the mid - nineteenth century this was not so . Parliament ...
... Parliament as the Commons , since the latter now totally dominates the Lords . For most ideological and practical purposes , Britain has a unicameral system of government . But in the mid - nineteenth century this was not so . Parliament ...
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... Parliament and the public along with a false promise of economy . At least until the latter part of this century , social amelioration and progress have been associated with state action , and these and similar writers may perhaps be ...
... Parliament and the public along with a false promise of economy . At least until the latter part of this century , social amelioration and progress have been associated with state action , and these and similar writers may perhaps be ...
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... Parliament as a Whig for a Wiltshire pocket - borough in 1830 , and was returned the following year for Hampshire , the northern division of which he represented for twenty - six years . He was a diligent and fair - minded committee ...
... Parliament as a Whig for a Wiltshire pocket - borough in 1830 , and was returned the following year for Hampshire , the northern division of which he represented for twenty - six years . He was a diligent and fair - minded committee ...
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... Parliament , doctors , clergy and guardians of the poor also were present , and a letter of support was read from Charles Dickens . 26 Ibid . , 7e and f . 27 The Times , 14 June 1866 , 7f . The campaign may have acquired added impetus ...
... Parliament , doctors , clergy and guardians of the poor also were present , and a letter of support was read from Charles Dickens . 26 Ibid . , 7e and f . 27 The Times , 14 June 1866 , 7f . The campaign may have acquired added impetus ...
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... Parliament the most important legislation he would ever handle , the British North America Act . In his various non - Parliamentary activities Carnarvon also showed his deep concern for the worthy poor . His old Oxford college , Christ ...
... Parliament the most important legislation he would ever handle , the British North America Act . In his various non - Parliamentary activities Carnarvon also showed his deep concern for the worthy poor . His old Oxford college , Christ ...
Contents
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CARNARVON AND NATIONAL PENAL POLICY | 97 |
THE SOCIAL AND PENAL IDEAS OF SIR EDMUND | 149 |
THE FLAWED PROSPECTUS | 188 |
Discipline labour and instruction | 235 |
Health dietary and discharge arrangements | 282 |
Special categories | 335 |
THE JUSTICES REACT TO NATIONALIZATION | 432 |
THE COMMITTEES ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE | 481 |
TRIUMPH OF THE CLERKS | 509 |
THE CALL FOR A PRISON INQUIRY | 549 |
PERSONALITIES AND PREOCCUPATIONS | 585 |
COMPOUNDING ERRORS | 615 |
AFTERMATH | 649 |
THE FINAL ACT | 697 |
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