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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... political discourse. This is because of a belief, abroad at least from the Enlightenment, that institutions are perfectible. Their history, it follows, must be the story of progress attempted and thwarted, with a strong tendency to see ...
... political discourse. This is because of a belief, abroad at least from the Enlightenment, that institutions are perfectible. Their history, it follows, must be the story of progress attempted and thwarted, with a strong tendency to see ...
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... political and economic environment and the deci- sions of individuals and even governments can be extraordinarily difficult . This century's grand theory historians have laboured over their various templates , but in the last few years ...
... political and economic environment and the deci- sions of individuals and even governments can be extraordinarily difficult . This century's grand theory historians have laboured over their various templates , but in the last few years ...
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... political and diplomatic history ( and that increasingly of the old - fashioned sort ) than it is in social history ... politicians and other national figures , and famous events , but it is a less frequently trod path for scholars of ...
... political and diplomatic history ( and that increasingly of the old - fashioned sort ) than it is in social history ... politicians and other national figures , and famous events , but it is a less frequently trod path for scholars of ...
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... political expedience , may play as great a part in decisions as consensus , deliberation and prescience . It would not be difficult , for example , to portray Carnarvon's deterrent and repressive penal policy as a response by ruling ...
... political expedience , may play as great a part in decisions as consensus , deliberation and prescience . It would not be difficult , for example , to portray Carnarvon's deterrent and repressive penal policy as a response by ruling ...
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... political and administrative departments of government tried to ensure that legislation did not go as far as he ... politics and administrations , swallows the self - interested centralism of Du Cane , or the statist doctrines of the ...
... political and administrative departments of government tried to ensure that legislation did not go as far as he ... politics and administrations , swallows the self - interested centralism of Du Cane , or the statist doctrines of the ...
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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