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Author_Sean McConville
Average Daily Population
Carnarvon Committee
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Central Government
civil service evolution
Convict Prisons
Discharged Prisoners
Du Cane
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George Grey
Gladstone Committee
Godfrey Lushington
history of British incarceration policies
Home Secretary
Local Prisons
nineteenth-century punishment
penal reform
Penal Servitude
Plank Beds
prison administration
Prison Commissioners
Prison Discipline
Prison Reformers
Progressive Stage System
Public Administration
Se?Mcconville
Senior Home Office Officials
Sir George Grey
Sir Godfrey Lushington
state formation history
Victorian justice system
Visiting Committee
Visiting Justices
Winchester Gaol
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415032957
- Weight: 1700g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years local imprisonment to be the most severe punishment known to English law: "next only to death". This work examines how private perceptions and concerns became public policy. It also traces the move in English government from the rural and aristocratic to the urban and more democratic. It follows the rise of the powerful elite of the higher civil service, describes some of the forces that attempted to oppose it, and provides a window through which to view the process of state formation.
