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1 online resource (x, 39 pages) |
| Contents |
Part 1. The crisis of punishment and the Penitentiary Act 1779 : -- 1. Rev. Samuel Denne, An Attempt to Shew the Good Effects which May Reasonably Be Expected From the Confinement of Criminals in Separate Apartments, 1771, excerpts -- 2. Jonas Hanway, The Defects of Police; The Cause of Immorality, 1775, excerpt -- 3. William Eden on crisis of American transportation, 16 Jan. 1776 -- 4. William Eden and Edmund Burke on the hulks bill, 1776 -- 5. William Eden, Observations on the Bill to Punish by Imprisonment and Hard Labour Certain Offenders; and to Provide Proper Places for Their Reception, 1778 -- 6. Jeremy Bentham, A View of the Hard-Labour Bill, 1778, excerpts -- 7. Sir Samuel Romilly on the Gordon Riots, 1780 -- 8. Dr. Samuel Johnson on the Gordon Riots, 1780 -- 9. State of Buckingham Prison, 1787 -- 10. Transportation or death, Old Bailey, 1787-1789 -- Part 2. The hulks : -- 11. "Report from the Select Committee on Secondary Punishments," 1831-1832, excerpt -- 12. W.A. Miles on the hulks, 1839 -- 13. Petition letter from wife of convict in hulks in Bermuda, 1860 -- Part 3. Transportation: personal experiences : -- 14. "Van Dieman's Land," Modern Street Ballads, 1888 -- 15. Returning from transportation, 1787-1789, 1809-1810 -- 16. Petitioner wants to be transported, 1826 -- 17. Petitioner wants to join convict husband in New South Wales, 1829 -- 18. Anonymous threatening letter from prisoner sentenced to transportation, 1829 -- Part 4. Transportation: the critique : -- 19. Rev. Sydney Smith and Sir Robert Peel on secondary punishments, 1826 -- 20. Charles Grey, "Secondary Punishments -- Transportation," 1834, excerpt -- 21. Report from the Select Committee on Transportation, 1838, excerpt -- 22. Lord John Russell on transportation and secondary punishment, 1839 -- 23. Sir George Grey on a reformed system of transportation, 1847 -- Part 5. Panopticon : -- 24. Patrick Colquhoun on Bentham's Panopticon scheme, 1800, excerpts -- 25. John Howard, An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe, 1789, excerpts -- 26. "Penitentiary, Millbank: Death of Another Convict," The Times, 19 July 1823 -- 27. Arthur Griffiths, Memorials of Millbank, 1875, excerpts -- 28. Mayhew and Binny on Millbank, 1862 -- Part 6. Debate on prison reform : -- 29. George Holford, "Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of This Country," Pamphleteer, 1821, excerpt -- 30. Sydney Smith, "Prisons," 1822, excerpts -- 31. Sydney Smith on the treadmill, 1826 -- 32. Description of the Tread Mill, for the Employment of Prisoners, 1823, excerpts -- 33. Elizabeth Fry on religious instruction in prisons, 1835 -- 34. Reginald W. Jeffery, Dyott's Diary 1781-1845, 1907, excerpts -- 35. W.A. Miles on prisons, 1835 -- 36. M.D. Hill, Draft Report on the Principles of Punishment, 1846, excerpts -- 37. Alexander Maconochie on the mark system, 1847 -- 38. Select Committee on Prison Discipline, Maconochie's evidence, 1850, excerpts -- Part 7. Silent and separate systems of prison discipline : -- 39. Report of William Crawford on the penitentiaries of the United States, 1834, excerpts -- 40. Charles Dickens on the Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia, 1842 -- Part 8. Pentonville and the age of the separate system : -- 41. Elizabeth Fry on Pentonville prison, 1841 -- 42. Dr. Forbes Winslow, "Prison Discipline," Lancet, 1851 -- 43. Robert Ferguson, "The Two Systems at Pentonville," 1853 -- 44. Thomas Carlyle, "Model Prisons," 1850, excerpts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Punishment -- 19th century
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Crime -- 19th century
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Crime
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Punishment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429995620 |
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0429995628 |
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