Punishment and Social Structure / Georg Rusche, Otto Kirchheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rusche, Georg, author.

Kirchheimer, Otto, author.

Contributor:

Sellin, Thorsten.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1939]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the role of punishment in the penal system from the later Middle Ages forward. Also looks at prison labor, relocation to Australia, and solitary confinement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND PENAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

III. MERCANTILISM AND THE RISE OF IMPRISONMENT

IV. CHANGES IN THE FORM OF PUNISHMENT

V. DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIMINAL THEORY AND LAW DURING THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

VI. SOCIAL AND PENAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

VII. THE ABOLITION OF TRANSPORTATION

VIII. THE FAILURE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

IX. MODERN PRISON REFORM AND ITS LIMITS

X. THE FINE IN RECENT PENAL PRACTICE

XI. NEW TRENDS IN PENAL POLICY UNDER FASCISM

XII. PENAL POLICY AND CRIME RATE

XIII. CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88894-5

OCLC:

609100987