The Mark System of Prison Discipline
Author: Alexander Maconochie
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 28
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On the Mark System of Prison Discipline. On National Education as Bearing on Crime, Being an Appendix to the Preceding
Author: Alexander Maconochie
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 8
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Author: Alexander Maconochie
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrime and Punishment
Author: Russell Marks
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2015-03-02
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1925203034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better. According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they’ll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after their release? What do we actually know about offenders and the reasons they break the law? In Crime & Punishment, Russell Marks argues that the lives of most criminal offenders – and indeed of many victims of crime – are marked by often staggering disadvantage. For many offenders, prison only increases their chances of committing further crimes. And despite what some media outlets and politicians want us to believe, harsher sentences do not help most victims to heal. Drawing on his experience as a lawyer, Marks eloquently makes the case for restorative justice and community correction, whereby offenders are obliged to engage with victims and make amends. Crime & Punishment is a provocative call for change to a justice system in desperate need of renewal.
Instead of Prisons
Author: Prison Research Education Action Project
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780976707011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Syracuse, N.Y.: Prison Research Education Action Project, 1976.
Discipline and Punish
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-04-18
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0307819299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Prisons and Prison Discipline
Author: James Mill
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Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781409959533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Mill (1773-1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was the father of influential philosopher of classical liberalism, John Stuart Mill. In 1798, he was licensed as a preacher, but met with little success. From 1790 to 1802, in addition to holding various tutorships, he occupied himself with historical and philosophical studies. From 1803 to 1806, he was editor of an ambitious periodical called the Literary Journal. About the end of 1806 he began his The History of British India, which he took twelve years to complete. In 1814, he wrote a number of articles, containing an exposition of utilitarianism, for the supplement to the fifth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the most important being Jurisprudence, Prisons and Prison Discipline and Government. In 1821, he helped found the Political Economy Club in London, which became a stomping ground for Ricardian economists and Benthamite radicals. Mill's Elements of Political Economy (1821) became the leading textbook exposition of doctrinaire Ricardian economics
Mass Incarceration on Trial
Author: Jonathan Simon
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1595587691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions-culminating in Brown v. Plata, decided in May 2011 by the U.S. Supreme Court-that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of "tough on crime" politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American prisons and, ultimately, lead to the demise of mass incarceration. This book offers a provocative and brilliant reading to the end of mass incarceration.
In Defense of Flogging
Author: Peter Moskos
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0465021484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents philosophical and practical arguments in favor of the administration of judicial corporal punishment as a way of addressing problems in the American criminal justice system.
Politics and Punishment
Author: Mark Thomas Carleton
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1984-08-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780807112199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the few studies of its kind, this political history of the Louisiana penal system from its origin to the near-present places heavy-emphasis on the development of penal policy and shows how the vicissitudes of the system have reflected the prevailing social, economic, and political views of the state as a whole. The author traces Louisiana’s doleful history of convict leasing from 1844 to 1901 and provides a close look at the machinations of the notorious Major Samuel L. James, who controlled the state penal system for more than thirty brutal years. Professor Carleton analyzes the effects of the Huey Long regime and the heel-slashings of the 1950s which brought the penitentiary the label of “America’s Worst Prison.” Finally, he traces the slow, uphill battle of those interested in better treatment and preparatory rehabilitation for state prisoners. “At its worst,” says Carleton, Louisiana’s penal system “has been a barbaric and exploitative form of state slavery. . . . At best it has been a progressive correctional institution, administered by professional penologists with little or no interference from penal reactionaries or politicians.” Politics and Punishment is a significant contribution to penal historiography and will no doubt serve as a model for similar studies in the field.
