The Promise of Punishment : : Prisons in Nineteenth-Century France / / Patricia O'Brien.

Patricia O'Brien traces the creation and development of a modern prison system in nineteenth-century France. The study has three principal areas of concern: prisons and their populations; the organizing principles of the system, including occupational and educational programs for rehabilitation...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1982
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 764
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION: Institutional History and the History of the Prison
  • CHAPTER 1: The Science of the New Punishment
  • CHAPTER 2: Men and Women in Prisons
  • CHAPTER 3: The New Prison Subcultures
  • CHAPTER 4: Youth in Prisons
  • CHAPTER 5: Work and Discipline in the Prison
  • CHAPTER 6: Education and Correction in the Prison
  • CHAPTER 7: The Released Prisoner in Civil Society
  • CHAPTER 8: Exclusion as Punishment
  • CHAPTER 9: The Total Institution in Nineteenth- Century France
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX