336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1922, in this volume Sydney and Beatrice Webb give a detailed account of the evolution of the English Prison System from the common gaol and the house of correction of the sixteenth century down to the statutory changes of the twentieth century, and survey the successive efforts at reform of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, Jeremy Bentham and James Neild, Sir T. Fowell Buxton and... Read more
1. The Maintenance of Prisons in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. 2. The State of the Prisons, 1700-773. 3. John Howard. 4. Parliamentary Action, 1774-1791. 5. National Prisons (the Hulks and Millbank). 6. Prison Administration from 1774-1816. 7. The Renewal of Parliamentary Activity, 1811-1823. 8. Rival Policies in Prison Administration. 9. Central Supervision and Control: First Period, 1835-1864. 10. Penal Servitude. 11. Central Supervision and Control: Second Period, 1865-1877. 12. The Act of 1877, and the Du Cane Regime.
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Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb
