The Oxford History of the Prison Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)

Name: The Oxford History of the Prison By Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)
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The Oxford History of the Prison by Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)

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The Oxford History of the Prison is an informative account of the growth and development of the prison in Western society, from classical times to the present day. In fourteen chapters - each written by specialists in social, legal, and institutional history - the book explores not only the complex history of the prison, but also the social world of inmates and their keepers.

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The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)

The Oxford History of the Prison Reviews

timely collection of essays on the long, grim history of the prison ... The value of the collection is that it constantly makes one think why ... was 'the impulse to do good' channelled into 'creating something as strange as a prison'? * Paul Barker, The Observer *
a most challenging and disturbing book ... the book meticulously evidences the failure of mass imprisonment to deliver a minimum quality of civilised human existence ... It shows the historical continuity of injustice and absurdity in any mass system. * Bill Forsythe, New Statesman & Society *

About Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)

Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine the College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as Professor of History at Columbia University.

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GOR002940451

ISBN 13

9780195118148

ISBN 10

0195118146

Title

The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)

Author

Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago)

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

19980226

Number of pages

440

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