Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
Subtitle: penal reformer
By: Alan S. Baxendale.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039119967
Subjects: Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965; Prison administration -- Great Britain -- History; Corrections -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mr Secretary Churchill, 19 February 1910; title: The home office and the prison commission : dramatis personae; title: Treatment of the gladstonian legacy; title: Humanizing convict and local prison regimes : Churchill's initiatives; title: Young offenders; title: Preventive detention; title: Abatement of imprisonment : draft administration of justice bill, 8 April 1911; title: The royal prerogative of mercy : Churchill and the judiciary; title: Churchill's penal thought and practice : an assessment.