Author: Bill Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192894692
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route to Australia, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War.
Author: Philip Priestley
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448130042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Victorian Prison Lives is the first account of the process of imprisionment in England between 1830 and 1914 to be drawn largely from the writings of prisoners themselves. The period was in some ways one of great change, beginning with an astonishing penitentiary experiement when prisons were seen as moral hospitals. But this approach eventually gave way to the idea of penal servitude and created a legacy of harshness and suffering still preserved in the reputations of Portland Chatham and Dartmoor. It was only towards the end of the period that the concept of modern prison administration began to emerge. But while statutary changes where taking place there was an underlying continuity. This is examined in a series of chapters on every aspect of prison life - from admission procedure, fellow prisoners and the nature of hard labour, diet and discipline to the process of release, which for a long-term prisioner could be as daunting as entry into prison.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Author: Jonathan Simon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317179382
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice, and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of, and the individuals subject to, justice. With its multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on which to debate the relationships between the ceremonial, legalistic, administrative and penal aspects of justice, and the spaces that constitute their settings. The structure of the book develops from the particular to the universal, from local situations to the larger city, and thereby examines the role that architecture and urban space play in the deliberations of justice. At the same time, contributors to the volume remind us of the potential impact the built environment can have in undermining the proper juridical processes of a socio-political system. Hence, the book provides both wise counsel and warnings of the role of public/civic space in affirming our sense of a just or unjust society.
Author: Martin J. Wiener
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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An account of changing conceptions and treatments of criminality in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Author: Hilary M. Carey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Author: Daniel Ritchie
Author: Daniel Ritchie
Author: Daniel Ritchie
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