Politics of Punishment
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This is a useful and solidly researched survey of imperial Russia's efforts to improve its prisons in the half century before the revolution. On the basis of largely unexplored archival documents, Bruce F. Adams follows the struggle of state officials to create penal institutions that met the standards established in Western Europe and the United States.
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Despite the horrors of punishment in a society so different from Western ideologies, the Russian government hugely modernized its correctional system toward the end of imperial rule. This study traces the development of the penal system from the "Great Reforms" to the "Main Prison Administration". Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 245
- ISBN
- 9780875802152
- Utgivelsesår
- 1996
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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This is a useful and solidly researched survey of imperial Russia's efforts to improve its prisons in the half century before the revolution. On the basis of largely unexplored archival documents, Bruce F. Adams follows the struggle of state officials to create penal institutions that met the standards established in Western Europe and the United States.
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Those who are interested in the history of prisons and how societies have dealt with crime will find the book of considerable interest, but it has a much wider appeal as well, because it is one of the most detailed and careful studies of how the late imperial bureaucracy dealt with a significant issue.
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On the basis of substantial archival research, Adams describes in tremendous detail the complex social and intellectual milieu that underlay the struggle for reform of Russia's prisons, as well as the tortuous administrative and legislative process by which it developed.
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Adams provides a useful corrective to popular conceptions about Imperial Russia by showing convincingly that the exile system played a small and even diminishing part in the Russian system of incarceration.
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