description: Covers the history of punishment and incarceration from the Code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, through the dungeons of mediaeval Europe to the birth of prisons more than a century ago as well as different penal systems.
language: English
title: The History of Incarceration
titlecomplete: The History of Incarceration (Incarceration Issues: Punishment, Reform, and Rehabilitation)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Mason Crest