Оксфордська історія в'язниць: Практика покарання в західному суспільстві

by Norval Morris, David J. Rothman, Іван Яндола (Translator)

Колективна праця американських вчених "Оксфордська історія в'язниць", присвячена проблемі злочину й покарання, змальовує історичний розвиток тюрми й каторги як соціальної інституції від античних часів до кінця ХХ сторіччя

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Social Science, Law, Social Justice, Politics, Historical

560 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1995

Reviews

[Jonathan-David Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most thorough discussion of prisons that I've ever read; very interesting. The book is too detailed for me to really do it justice in a review (and also because I've forgotten it all since I read it), so I'll just say that if you have any interest in the history of incarceration at all, you'll find this enlightening.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of my works-in-progress involves a reform school for girls. I only looked at the chapter about reform schools and their relation to various prison reform movements. Overall I found that the one chapter in this book was equivalent to much of the book Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856-1905, even though this chapter covered reform schools for both boys and girls. The chapter discusses how various school and prison reforms affected the idea of a place for juvenile delinquents, from the earliest incarnations in the 1600s to the dissolution of most state-run reform schools in the 1970s. It also gives an overview of the types of treatment given to the residents - the lack of emphasis on schooling, punishments, etc. Both the New York House of Refuge (the first reform school in the U.S., which was co-ed) and the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls are mentioned with some detail, as well as others.

[Janice Liedl · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an erudite collection of essays that idiosyncratically takes on the history of prisons from antiquity to the modern period. The history is not terribly deep in terms of chronology - one overview of the distant past, another broad survey of the early modern period (heavy emphasis on the chapter author's own expertise in Dutch prisons) and then a leap forward into the modern era where the collection spreads it wings. If your focus is on the 18th century to the present? This will appeal. I was disappointed because I'd really hoped for more on the medieval and early modern periods. I also thought something more of the colonial experience of imprisonment would have helped - there's one chapter on Australia as convict colony but that's it.

I also can recommend the thematic chapters at the end - there's a great piece on juvenile prisons and another interesting study of "the literature of confinement". This is an interesting reference piece but definitely not a "read-through" narrative.

[Maureen Bellwoar]

i read this for a thesis i did about the criminal justice system. needless to say i am very against the current institution. it needs to be drastically change. and i hope someday to be apart of the change

[Nathalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book and a great addition to my course.