Shades of the Prison House (eBook)

A History of Incarceration in the British Isles

Harry Potter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
572 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78744-525-3 (ISBN)

Infos

As entertaining as it is informative, this book explores the history of incarceration in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Over the centuries, prisons - from castle dungeons to "e;lockups"e; to "e;penitentiaries"e; to gaols -have changed radically in name, conditions, attributes and functions, as well as in their character and rationale. Prisons have served many aims: detention, deterrence, punishment, reformation and rehabilitation, all in varying degrees. Yet while prisons and their purposes have been transformed, the same debates on imprisonment have continually recurred. Concerns about overcrowding and over-pampering, security and safety have been expressed from the very beginning, and modern notions that prison might serve a purpose other than containment or punishment were espoused long before the eighteenth century. Drawing on letters, treatises, personal accounts, histories, legal and official reports and studies of prison architecture and design, this book tells the story of prisons, prison life and those who experienced it, be they prisoners, governors, chaplains, warders, reformers or advocates. As entertainingas it is informative, the book examines the nature and quality of imprisonment over the last fifteen hundred years, before surveying present problems and concluding with thoughts on future directions. HARRY POTTER is a former fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a practising barrister specialising in criminal defence. Author of Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law (Boydell Press, 2015), he wrote and presented an award-winning series on the same subject for the BBC. He has also authored Edinburgh under Siege: 1571-1573 (2003), Blood Feud: The Stewarts and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (2002), Hanging and Heresy (1994) and Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England from the Bloody Code to Abolition (1993). Before being called to the Bar, he worked as a prison chaplain, largely with long-termand life-sentence prisoners.

Inhalt

Introduction
Bonds of Iron
Gaols Ordained
Prisons, Peasants, and Pastons
Bridewells, Counters and the Clink
Higher than the Stars
Treason in the Cheese
Plague, Pudding and Pie
A Newgate Pastoral
The Ordinary and Extra-ordinary
Gaol Delivery
Diving into the Depths of Dungeons
Flotsam and Jetsam
Mr Bentham's Haunted House
The Angel of the Prisons
Mr Holford's Fattening-House
Goodies and Noodles
Silence or Separation
The 'Model Prison'
The Universal Syllabub of Philanthropic Twaddle
Bleak House
Top Marks
Discipline and Deter
The History and Romance of Crime
Reaping and Sowing
Kittle Cattle
The Sins of our Fathers
Suffer the Little Children
Sanitising Death
A Good and Useful Life
The Pioneer Spirit
Borstal Boy
The Nutcracker Suite
The Search for Security
Crying Woolf
Tea-Bags for the Chaplain
The Old Imprisonment Blues
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 34 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: castles • Crime • cruelty • Death Penalty • Dungeons • famous convicts • hard labour • Ivor Novello • Keepers • newgate • Oscar Wilde • Reform • Rehabilitation • security • squalor • suffragettes • terrorists • the clink • Tower of London • Wat Tyler • Wormwood Scrubs
• ISBN-10: 1-78744-525-9 / 1787445259
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-525-3 / 9781787445253