Summary
Contents
Subject index
This lively and accessible text provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. It explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of contemporary criminal justice and examines the historical context for contemporary criminological debates. For each topic, the book provides an overview of current research, comment on current arguments, and links to wider debates.
Incarceration and Decarceration
Incarceration and Decarceration
Incarceration and decarceration
Chapter Contents
- Ways of Looking at Punishment 152
- The Pre-Reform System of Punishment 154
- The Promise of the Penitentiary and the Reformatory 156
- The Death Penalty, Corporal Punishment and Transportation 159
- Reformatory Philosophies and their Roots 160
- The Ongoing Public Debate about Prison Conditions 162
- Punishing the Criminal or Punishing the Crime 165
- The Role of Punishment in the Late Twentieth Century 167
- Reviewing Changing Modes of Punishment 168
Overview
- Discusses the aims of punishment – deterrence, rehabilitation, capacitation and retribution – and how these have developed over time.
- Explores the promise of the penitentiary and the reformatory, the use of the death penalty, corporal punishment, transportation, and the longstanding debate about prison conditions.
- Asks: What about punishment today? If the nineteenth century can be described ...
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