.png){kind=logo}
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Role of Prison in Europe: Travelling in the Footsteps of John Howard
Tom Vander Beken
€ 116.64
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Role of Prison in Europe: Travelling in the Footsteps of John Howard
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on centuries of the practice of locking people up as punishment. Howard travelled across Europe to visit prisons, with a simple method: he travelled and knocked on prison doors on his journey and entered the premises. He then observed the situation in the prison, took notes and left to visit other locations. Howard's influential book The State of the Prisons ... Read more
This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on centuries of the practice of locking people up as punishment. Howard travelled across Europe to visit prisons, with a simple method: he travelled and knocked on prison doors on his journey and entered the premises. He then observed the situation in the prison, took notes and left to visit other locations. Howard's influential book The State of the Prisons ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319293875
SKU
V9783319293875
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Tom Vander Beken
Tom Vander Beken is Professor at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy at Ghent University, Belgium. He conducts research on criminal justice issues with a particular focus on prisons and prison systems.
Reviews for The Role of Prison in Europe: Travelling in the Footsteps of John Howard
This book will probably be read in different ways by historical and contemporary criminologists. As the combination of title and subtitle suggests, it deals both with today's prisons and with the eighteenth-century visitor of carceral institutions, John Howard. ... In sum: this is a book ... interesting for criminologists. (Pieter Spierenburg, Rutgers University, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, March, 2017) ... Read more