An Account of the General Penitentiary at Millbank ...
Author : George Holford
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Prisons
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Author : George Holford
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Prisons
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Author : George Peter Holford
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : George Holford
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Prisons
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Author : Rosalind Crone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0192570579
The nineteenth-century prison, we have been told, was a place of 'hard labour, hard board, and hard fare'. Yet it was also a place of education. Schemes to teach prisoners to read and write, and sometimes more besides, can be traced to the early 1800s. State-funded elementary education for prisoners pre-dated universal and compulsory education for children by fifty years. In the 1860s, when the famous maxim, just cited, became the basis of national penal policy, arithmetic was included by legislators alongside reading and writing as a core skill to be taught in English prisons. By c.1880 every prison in England used to accommodate those convicted of criminal offences had a formal education programme in which the 3Rs - reading, writing, and arithmetic - were taught, to males and females, adults and children alike. Not every programme, however, had prisoners enrolled in it. Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for those accused and convicted of crime - and its execution over the century that followed. Using evidence from both local and convict prisons, the study shows how education became part of the modern penal regime. While the curriculum largely reflected that of mainstream elementary schools, the delivery of education, shaped by the penal environment, created an entirely different educational experience. At the same time, philosophies of imprisonment which prioritised punishment and deterrence over reformation undermined any socially reconstructive ambitions. Thus the period between 1800 and 1899 witnessed the rise and fall of the prison school in England.
Author : Sean Mcconville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1317373189
This title, first published in 1981, draws from an extensive range of national and local material, and examines how innovations in policy and administration, while solving problems or setting new objectives, frequently created or disclosed fresh difficulties, and brought different types of people into the administration and management of prisons, whose interests, values and expectations in turn often had significant effects upon penal ideas and their practical applications. Special attention has been paid to the study of recruitment, the work and influence of gaolers, keepers, governors, and highly administrative officials. This comprehensive book will be of interest to students of criminology and history.
Author : George Holford
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : George Peter HOLFORD
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1825
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 964 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1844
Category : History
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Author : Edmund Burke
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Page : 922 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784
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After 1815 the usual form became a number of chapters on Britain, paying particular attention to the proceedings of Parliament, followed by chapters covering other countries in turn, no longer limited to Europe. The expansion of the History came at the expense of the sketches, reviews and other essays so that the nineteenth-century publication ceased to have the miscellaneous character of its eighteenth-century forebear, although poems continued to be included until 1862, and a small number of official papers and other important texts continue to be reproduced to this day. Includes a long historical essay on the "History of the Present War" (the Seven Years' War 1756-63). In his preface to the 1758 volume Burke noted the difficulties he had faced in writing the history section of the book. Taking the "broken and unconnected materials" and creating from them "one connected narrative" had been, he commented, "a work of more labour than may at first appear." The 1758 volume is considered a unique, contemporaneous account of the Seven Years' War, analyzing its origins and development with a perspective not readily available at the time in newspapers or magazines.