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 V - THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 1895–1965
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 great age of penal optimism when Ruggles-Brise, Paterson and Fox, all idealists within the Prison Commission, navigated a new way in the treatment of offenders and especially of the young. The demise of the death penalty dispelled a dark shadow over prisons, while the rise of the borstal, along with innovations in the treatment of the mentally ill and the psychologically damaged, proved to be Britain's greatest contributions to penal progress.
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- Shades of the Prison HouseA History of Incarceration in the British Isles, pp. 323 - 324Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019