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Oxford University Press. New. Date: 1997. Paperback. 0195118146 . This specific paperback book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "In The Oxford History of the Prison, a team of distinguished scholars offers a vivid account of the rise and development of this critical institution. Penalties other than incarceration were once much more common, from such bizarre death sentences as the Roman practice of drowning convicts in sacks filled with animals to a frequent reliance on the scaffold and on to forms of public shaming (such as the classic stocks of colonial America). The first decades of the nineteenth century saw the rise of the full-blown prison system--and along with it, the idea of prison reform. Alexis de Tocqueville originally came to America to write a report on its widely acclaimed prison system.The authors trace the persistent tension between the desire to punish and the hope for rehabilitation, recounting the institution's evolution from the rowdy and squalid English jails of the 1700s, in which prisoners and visitors ate and drank together; to the sober and stark nineteenth-century penitentiaries, whose inmates were forbidden to speak or even to see one another; and finally to the "big houses" of the current American ...

ISBN10: 0195118146, ISBN13: 9780195118148, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0195118146, ISBN13: 9780195118148, [publisher: OUP USA 1998-02-26, New York |Oxford] Softcover Language: ENG
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Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 1997. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 448 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. 1997. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0195118146 9780195118148 [GB]

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