Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780195118148 |
ISBN 10 | 0195118146 |
Author | Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology Norval Morris |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. In The Oxford History of the Prison, a team of distinguishe |
About the Author | Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine the College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as Professor of History at Columbia University. Read more |
Publication Date | 1997-12-18 |
Number of Pages | 448 pages |
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society