Pioneering in Penology : : The Amsterdam Houses of Correction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / / Marvin E. Wolfgang.
From the PrefaceIn the story of punishment, the institutions described in this monograph hold a significant place, yet their role in shaping the history of prisons has not hitherto been explored by any American or English historian of institutions. In vain do we look for even a mention of them in wo...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1944 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I. Punishments in Old Amsterdam
- II. The Wellsprings of Reform
- III. Plans and Proposals
- IV. The Rasphuis and Its Administration
- V. The Prisoners
- VI. The Labor Program
- VII. Welfare and Discipline
- VIII. The Rasphuis and Its Visitors
- IX. The "Private" Section
- X. The Spinhuis
- XI. The Imitators
- Bibliography
- Index