Prison Experience

by Pieter Cornelis Spierenburg

Book Overview

The prison occupies a central position in the penal systems of most countries today. Many historians believe that imprisonment did not become a major judicial sanction until the nineteenth century. Pieter Spierenburg corrects this view. First as a disciplinary institution and later as a penal option, the prison has played an important role in European societies from the late sixteenth century to today. Spierenburg traces the evolution of the prison...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516390
• ISBN13: 9780813516394
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.