Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This extensively illustrated volume considers how prison design has evolved over the centuries, how it has taken shape in various corners of the globe, and how it reflects the society that oversees it.
Table of Contents
Makeshift prisons -- Religious and monastic imprisonment -- Stirrings of reform : prisons in the early modern period -- Shapes of reform : 1780 to 1835 -- Great expectations : prison reform in North America until the mid-nineteenth century -- Western European prisons : 1835 to World War II -- Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Americas : 1835 to World War II -- Old problems, new solutions.