Patricia O'Brien, The promise of punishment. Prisons in nineteenth-century France, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiii, 330, illus., £21.20.

Ruth Harris

doi:10.1017/S0025727300043143

Patricia O'Brien, The promise of punishment. Prisons in nineteenth-century France, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiii, 330, illus., £21.20.

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Information: Medical History , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 326 - 327

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Patricia O'Brien, The promise of punishment. Prisons in nineteenth-century France, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiii, 330, illus., £21.20.

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