On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application to France
de Tocqueville, Alexis, Gustave de Beaumont
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
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The work contains a critical comparison of two competing American penitentiary disciplines known as the Auburn and Philadelphia systems, an evaluation of whether American penitentiaries can successfully work in France, a detailed description of Houses of Refuge as the first juvenile detention centers, and an argument against penal colonization.
- ISBN-13
- 9783030099930
- ISBN-10
- 3030099938
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-01-24
- Pages
- 343
- Dimensions
- 147x211x23
- Weight
- 502