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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... inquiry , and a suspicion of science , to produce a vague type of spiritualism , comfortable with the institution and trappings of the Church temporal , yet offering a type of 14 religious safeguards simply because educated men had ...
... inquiry , and a suspicion of science , to produce a vague type of spiritualism , comfortable with the institution and trappings of the Church temporal , yet offering a type of 14 religious safeguards simply because educated men had ...
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... inquiry , and Acts of Parliament.79 Two interests are pronounced : means to promote a more rigorous prison ... Inquire into the Provisions and Operation of the Act 16 & 17 Vict . , c . 99 , PP , 1856 [ 244 ] , XVII , 1 . w [ oul ] d be ...
... inquiry , and Acts of Parliament.79 Two interests are pronounced : means to promote a more rigorous prison ... Inquire into the Provisions and Operation of the Act 16 & 17 Vict . , c . 99 , PP , 1856 [ 244 ] , XVII , 1 . w [ oul ] d be ...
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... inquiry was not the absence of national or even local concern , but the fractious politics of county government . Any defects found in the goal , any recommendation for change , would be a direct criticism of the visiting committee ...
... inquiry was not the absence of national or even local concern , but the fractious politics of county government . Any defects found in the goal , any recommendation for change , would be a direct criticism of the visiting committee ...
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... inquiry . His tactic was to distinguish between the visiting committee's routine duties and the different task of a committee of inquiry . The latter was to take " a broader view of the question , and [ to ] address ... the principles ...
... inquiry . His tactic was to distinguish between the visiting committee's routine duties and the different task of a committee of inquiry . The latter was to take " a broader view of the question , and [ to ] address ... the principles ...
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... inquiry Custom dictated that Carnarvon should head the inquiry . This was , after all , government by patrician amateurs , and since he had set the thing in motion , he could do the work . The appointment of his three closest Hampshire ...
... inquiry Custom dictated that Carnarvon should head the inquiry . This was , after all , government by patrician amateurs , and since he had set the thing in motion , he could do the work . The appointment of his three closest Hampshire ...
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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