Learn about prison reform. Examine the history of the prison reform movement from the 1800s to today. Explore prison reform definition and prison...
This paper examines two periods of prison reform in the 20th century, to indicate the problematic role that traditional theories of the moral justification of punishment have had in the history of reform effects have played. I argue that moral theories of punishment are not the best vehicle for...
Ray Wallace was Fresno police chief from the 1930s until 1950. As police chief, he controlled much of the vice (gambling and prostitution) in the city. He was ultimately caught and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in 1950 for tax evasion and for using his office to amass 1,700 ...
Scholars have conducted case studies of historical penal institutions as well as examined the history of women in prison, which paints a vivid picture of prisons throughout history. Historians and scholars also place great emphasis on reform efforts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where...
sexuality. Rooted in earlier women’s temperance and moral reform traditions, the American Social Purity movement was influenced by the “rescue” work of British prostitution reformers like Josephine Butler and W.T. Stead and the revelations of international groups for the suppression of “white ...
released after a little over a year in prison. Meanwhile, Dudley's family had befriended now-Queen Mary's husband Philip of Spain. As long as King Philip was around, Dudley and his brother were welcome at court, but when Philip wasn't there, they were just a couple of suspected ...
Emergence of the penitentiary John HowardJohn Howard, oil painting by Mather Brown; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Theconceptof the prison as a penitentiary (that is, as a place ofpunishmentandpersonal reform) was advocated in this period by the English jurist and philosopherJeremy Ben...
Prison Medical Service Prison Reform Prisoners Rights, Release and Continuity of Care Project themes Public Art Public Engagement Separate System Services for drug users in prisons Stigma Suffragette Diary Suicide Tate Exchange The Prison and Mental Health ...
South East Asia: Reform and the Colonial Prison The Shadow of Rule: Colonial Power and Modern Punishment in Africa." Cultures of Confinement: A Global History of the Prison in Asia, Africa, the Middle-East and Latin America. Ed. Ian Brown and Frank Dikotter, Cornell, NY: ... I Brown ...
Influence of theEnlightenment Get Unlimited Access Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe The feminist voices of theRenaissancenever coalesced into acoherentphilosophy or movement. This happened only with theEnlightenment, when women began to demand that the new reformistrhetoricabout...