Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I IN THE BEGINNING, 600–1500
- PART II SQUALOR CARCERIS, 1500–1750
- PART III EXPERIMENTATION WITH IMPRISONMENT, 1750–1863
- PART IV PUNISH AND BE DAMNED, 1863–1895
- PART V THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 1895–1965
- PART VI SAFE AND SECURE? 1965–2018
- Bibliography
- Index
PART I - IN THE BEGINNING, 600–1500
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I IN THE BEGINNING, 600–1500
- PART II SQUALOR CARCERIS, 1500–1750
- PART III EXPERIMENTATION WITH IMPRISONMENT, 1750–1863
- PART IV PUNISH AND BE DAMNED, 1863–1895
- PART V THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 1895–1965
- PART VI SAFE AND SECURE? 1965–2018
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The earliest evidence of imprisonment from Anglo-Saxon times to its development under the Normans and Angevins, including prison escapes and attacks on prisons as symbols of oppression. The plethora of places of incarceration in London and Southwark, and the proliferation of gaols of all sorts elsewhere. The gradually increasing use of imprisonment as a punishment, although gaols remained largely as a holding-bay or, in the case of debtors, a means of coercion.
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- Shades of the Prison HouseA History of Incarceration in the British Isles, pp. 11 - 12Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019