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Description

1. xiv, 365 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Compared with most European countries, The Netherlands sends few of its convicted criminals to prison, and those who are imprisoned have more rights and better treatment than their European counterparts. In this seminal study, criminologist Herman Franke presents the 'Dutch case'. Examining imprisonment in The Netherlands from the end of the eighteenth century to the modern day, he gives a close historical and sociological analysis of the changing trends in the Dutch penal system, revealing the limitations of existing literature on the origins of imprisonment. He concludes that the work of Foucault, Ignatieff, Rothman and Rusch, and Kirchheimer fails to explain long-term developments that are typical of Western prison systems, and provides a sociological interpretation of these changes.

Series statement

1. Edinburgh law and society series

Uniform title

1. Edinburgh law and society series

Subject

1. Prisons > Netherlands > History
2. Punishment > Netherlands > History
3. Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc. > Netherlands
4. Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > Netherlands
5. Criminals > Rehabilitation > History. > Netherlands
6. Criminals > Rehabilitation
7. Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization
8. Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc
9. Prisons
10. Punishment
11. Gefängnis
12. Reform
13. Strafgefangener
14. Strafvollzug
15. Vollzugslockerung
16. Emancipatie
17. Rechtspositie
18. Gevangenen
19. Gevangeniswezen
20. Netherlands
21. prison > Pays-Bas > 1775 > 20e s
22. prisonnier > Pays-Bas > 1775 > 20e s
23. Niederlande

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Prison life, 1775 -1825 : popular curiosity and professional interest -- Death, discipline and depravity in prison factories, 1821 -- 1850 -- Socialization by social isolation : experiments with penitentiaries in England and the USA -- Barbarian scaffold versus civilized solitude : from external to internal constraint -- Penal reality for a prison inspector 1850-1886 : the suffering behind the death rates -- Cell maniacs, Irish sinners and conservative reactionaries : the system controversy -- Misery and insanity : the reality of cell life, 1886 -1914 -- Wilful sinners or born criminals : the cell system under attack -- Toughness and leniency, 1918 -- 1940 : 'deviations', education, incapacitation and minimum rules -- Radical reforms after the occupation : the abolition of the cell system -- Two centuries of imprisonment : socio-historical explanations and conclusions

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliograph references (p. [332]-360) and index.