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A Just Measure of Ppain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
A Just Measure of Ppain The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
Author: Michael Ignatieff
"A Just Measure of Pain" describes the moment in 18th-century England when the modern penitentiary and its ambiguous legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows - public punishments once meant to cow the unruly poor into passivity - came to be replaced by the "moral management" of the prison and the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394410418
ISBN-10: 0394410416
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 257
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Pantheon Books
Book Type: Unknown Binding
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