Prisons past and future / edited for the Howard League for Penal Reform by John C. Freeman
1978, First Edition. London : Heinemann Educational. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edgeworn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some library marks remain internally. A well-preserved copy overall. Item #452390
ISBN: 0435823086
Series; Cambridge studies in criminology ; 41. Physical description; xii, 239 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Kent in 1977 in commemoration of the bi-centenary of John Howard's 'The state of the prisons'. Includes index. Contents; John Howard / Leon Radzinowicz -- John Howard and Bedford prison / Eric Stockdale -- John Howard and his influence in America / R.W. England -- John Howard's influence on the prison system of Europe with special reference to Germany / Albert Krebs -- A good man for gaoler? -- crisis, discontent and the prison staff / J.E. Thomas -- The centralization of governmental control of national prison services, with special reference to the Prison Act, 1877 / L.J. Blom-Cooper -- Shared responsibility / L. Lloyd Rees -- The parlous state of prisons / Terence Morris -- The effect of prison on criminality / Preben Wolf -- The case for prisoners' rights / Graham Zellick -- The future of parole / F.H. McClintock -- Classification for risk and supervision -- a preliminary conceptualization / Edith Elisabeth Flynn -- The justice model for corrections / David Fogel -- Prisons in society, or society as a prison -- a conceptual analysis / Nils Christie -- Control without repression? / Inkeri Anttila -- Ethics and expediency in penal practice / Laurie Taylor -- Mental health services and the penal system / T.C.N. Gibbens. Subjects; Howard, John (1726-1790). Prisons -- History -- Congresses. Prisons -- Great Britain.
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