Punishment and Social Structure / / Georg Rusche, Otto Kirchheimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rusche, Georg,; Kirchheimer, Otto,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sellin, Thorsten.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1939]; ©1939
• Year of Publication: 1939
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; I. INTRODUCTION --; II. SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND PENAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES --; III. MERCANTILISM AND THE RISE OF IMPRISONMENT --; IV. CHANGES IN THE FORM OF PUNISHMENT --; V. DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIMINAL THEORY AND LAW DURING THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT --; VI. SOCIAL AND PENAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION --; VII. THE ABOLITION OF TRANSPORTATION --; VIII. THE FAILURE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT --; IX. MODERN PRISON REFORM AND ITS LIMITS --; X. THE FINE IN RECENT PENAL PRACTICE --; XI. NEW TRENDS IN PENAL POLICY UNDER FASCISM --; XII. PENAL POLICY AND CRIME RATE --; XIII. CONCLUSION --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231888943; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/rusc92484
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Georg Rusche, Otto Kirchheimer.

Studies the role of punishment in the penal system from the later Middle Ages forward. Also looks at prison labor, relocation to Australia, and solitary confinement.