Pratt, John

Punishment and civilization : penal tolerance and intolerance in modern society / Punishment & civilization John Pratt - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002 - x, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 --2 Carnival, Execution and Civilization 15 --3 The Disappearance of Prison 35 --4 The Amelioration of Prison Life 60 --5 The Sanitization of Penal Language 81 --6 The Memories of Prisoners 97 --7 Bureaucratization and Indifference 121 --8 The Breakdown of Civilization 145 --9 The Gulag and Beyond 166.

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Punishment--History--England
Imprisonment--History--England
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