English Society and the Prison: Time, Culture and Politics in the Development of the Modern Prison, 1850-1920.(Book review)

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English Society and the Prison: Time, Culture and Politics in the Development of the Modem Prison, 1850-1920. By Alyson Brown (Suffolk: The Boy-dell Press, 2003. vii plus 205pp.).

Alyson Brown's English Society and the Prison: Time, Culture and Politics in the Development of the Modern Pri0son, 1850-1920 explores the causes and consequences of prison disturbances in order to gain insight into how the prison system was experienced and understood by different individuals involved with incarceration. Brown uses these outbreaks of disorder to illuminate the relationship between ...

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