Punishment and civilization
Subtitle: penal tolerance and intolerance in modern society
By: John Pratt.
Publisher: Sage
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Punishment -- England -- History.; Imprisonment -- England -- History.; Prisons -- England -- History.
Other titles: Punishment & civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1; title: 2 Carnival, Execution and Civilization 15; title: 3 The Disappearance of Prison 35; title: 4 The Amelioration of Prison Life 60; title: 5 The Sanitization of Penal Language 81; title: 6 The Memories of Prisoners 97; title: 7 Bureaucratization and Indifference 121; title: 8 The Breakdown of Civilization 145; title: 9 The Gulag and Beyond 166.