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Griffiths was a former Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain and in addition to his works on military history and a number of mystery crime novels, he wrote extensively on the history of penal institutions at home and abroad.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781406870602
Griffiths was a former Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain and in addition to his works on military history and a number of mystery crime novels, he wrote extensively on the history of penal institutions at home and abroad.
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465605649
The judicial administration of France had its origin in the Feudal System. The great nobles ruled their estates side by side with, and not under, the King. With him the great barons exercised ÒhighÓ justice, extending to life and limb. The seigneurs and great clerics dispensed ÒmiddleÓ justice and imposed certain corporal penalties, while the power of ÒlowÓ justice, extending only to the amende and imprisonment, was wielded by smaller jurisdictions. The whole history of France is summed up in the persistent effort of the King to establish an absolute monarchy, and three centuries were passed in a struggle between nobles, parliaments and the eventually supreme ruler. Each jurisdiction was supported by various methods of enforcing its authority: All, however, had their prisons, which served many purposes. The prison was first of all a place of detention and durance where people deemed dangerous might be kept out of the way of doing harm and law-breakers could be called to account for their misdeeds. Accused persons were in it held safely until they could be arraigned before the tribunals, and after conviction by legal process were sentenced to the various penalties in force. The prison was de facto the high road to the scaffold on which the condemned suffered the extreme penalty by one or another of the forms of capital punishment, and death was dealt out indifferently by decapitation, the noose, the stake or the wheel. Too often where proof was weak or wanting, torture was called in to assist in extorting confession of guilt, and again, the same hideous practice was applied to the convicted, either to aggravate their pains or to compel the betrayal of suspected confederates and accomplices. The prison reflected every phase of passing criminality and was the constant home of wrong-doers of all categories, heinous and venial. Offenders against the common law met their just retribution. Many thousands were committed for sins political and non-criminal, the victims of an arbitrary monarch and his high-handed, irresponsible ministers. The prison was the KingÕs castle, his stronghold for the coercion and safe-keeping of all who conspired against his person or threatened his peace. It was a social reformatory in which he disciplined the dissolute and the wastrel, the loose-livers of both sexes, who were thus obliged to run straight and kept out of mischief by the stringent curtailment of their liberty. The prison, last of all, played into the hands of the rich against the poor, active champion of the commercial code, taking the side of creditors by holding all debtors fast until they could satisfy the legal, and at times illegal demands made upon them.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : History
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In this work, British military officer, prison administrator and author Arthur Griffins discussed the period in French prison practice during the transition between the end of the Old Régime and the start of the New. It presents a view of the prisons of the period immediately following the Revolution. Contents include: After the Revolution The Great Seaport Prisons Celebrated French Convicts The First Great Detective The Combat with Crime Celebrated Cases The Course of the Law Mazas and La Santé Two Model Reformatories A Model Penitentiary
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354547546
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher :
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Art
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1861
Category : England
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Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307819299
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Herbert Stuart Stone
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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