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'The Victorian prison was a more 'civilized' method of punishment than hanging'
Title: 'The Victorian prison was a more 'civilized' method of punishment than hanging'
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'The Victorian prison was a more 'civilized' method of punishment than hanging'
In this essay, an argument will be shown that will make it apparent that Victorian prisons were indeed a more civilized way of dealing with criminals, as opposed to subjecting them to a public hanging. There could have been better ways of dealing with Victorian prisoners, such as rehabilitation schemes and re-education schools, however a prison sentence was still a more humane option than the alternative of being publicly hanged and up to 1793 burned afterwards. …showed first 75 words of 2255 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2255 total…SCM press, 1993)
Priestley, Phillip, Victorian prison lives 1830-1914 (London and New York: Methuen, 1985)
Royle, Edward, Modern Britain, a social history 1750-1985 (London and New York: Arnold, 1987)
Thomas, Donald, The Victorian underworld, (London, John Murray,1998)
Websites
Roberts, Andrew 7.3.2000/crimeline - Crimtim: A criminology and deviancy theory history timeline <http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/crimtim.htm> Middlesex University
http://cartome.org/panopticon2.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LONnewgate.htm
www.victorianlondon.org
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