A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850This book returns to the historical moment of the creation of the penitentiary in industrializing England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book documents the rise of a new conception of class relations and a new philosophy of punishment. Both were directed at the mind rather than the body, wherein the whip, the brand and the gallows were being replaced by the prison. The ways in which the middle and upper classes tried to forge new methods for controlling the poor and the ways the poor and imprisoned resisted those controls are examined. The author raises questions about the manner in which reform can be used to consolidate the power of the state and about the moral boundaries of authority. |
Contents
Pentonville | 3 |
Eighteenth Century Punishment | 15 |
Cords of Love Fetters of Iron | 44 |
Copyright | |
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A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1978 |
A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1978 |
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