English Prison Literature Of The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries
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Prisons and Prison Reforms in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England
Author | : Clotilde Littlejohn Hair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Prisons |
ISBN | : |
The Oxford History of the Prison
Author | : Norval Morris |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780195118148 |
Ranging from ancient times to the present, a survey of the evolution of the prison explores its relationship to the history of Western criminal law and offers a look at the social world of prisoners over the centuries.
Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Author | : Kevin Binfield |
Publisher | : Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1603293493 |
Behind our contemporary experience of globalization, precarity, and consumerism lies a history of colonization, increasing literacy, transnational trade in goods and labor, and industrialization. Teaching British laboring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of class, status, and labor in relation to the historical developments that inform our lives as workers and members of society. This volume demonstrates pedagogical techniques and provides resources for students and teachers on autobiographies, broadside ballads, Chartism and other political movements, georgics, labor studies, satire, service learning, writing by laboring-class women, and writing by laboring people of African descent.
The Health of Prisoners
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2020-01-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9004418431 |
In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early nineteenth century, custodial institutions housed prisoners for much longer periods of time. Prisoners were supposed to be reformed as well as punished during their incarceration. From at least the time of John Howard (1726-1790), the health of prisoners has been part of the concern of philanthropists and others concerned with the wider functions of prisons. The Victorians established a Prison Medical Service, and members of the medical profession have long been involved in caring for the mental and physical needs of prisoners. For two centuries, prison overcrowding has been identified as a major cause of mortality and morbidity in prisons. Historical debates thus often have a modern ring to them, which make the essays in this volume particularly timely.
A Century in Captivity
Author | : Denis R. Caron |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781584655404 |
The riveting reconstruction of an eighteenth-century slave's life and imprisonment
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Author | : Angela Y. Davis |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1609801040 |
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
A Just Measure of Pain
Author | : Michael Ignatieff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Convicts |
ISBN | : 9780333258088 |
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
Author | : Alexander Wakelam |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429647921 |
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.