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Imprisonment and the Family: An Analysis of Petitions for Confinement in Holland, 1680-1805

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Pieter Spierenburg
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The historical study of imprisonment touches on various issues of a wider, theoretical significance. A major and ongoing discussion in social science concerns the nature of historical change. Authors writing from a structuralist or systems approach tend to emphasize rapid change followed by long periods of continuity. Opposed to this is a more developmental or longitudinal approach stressing long-term processes. Both approaches are represented in the historiography about imprisonment. They may be identified as modernization-oriented and process-oriented, respectively.

Several recent studies of the emergence of prisons in Europe and America dealt with the first half of the nineteenth century (see especially Rothman, 1971; Foucault, 1975; Ignatieff, 1978). These studies suggested that confinement was a relatively new phenomenon in that period.

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Social Science History , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Summer 1986 , pp. 115 - 146
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1986 

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