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Book SynopsisPatricia O'Brien traces the creation and development of a modern prison system in nineteenth-century France. The study has three principal areas of concern: prisons and their populations; the organizing principles of the system, including occupational and educational programs for rehabilitation; and the extension of punishment outside the prison wa
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION: Institutional History and the History of the Prison, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1: The Science of the New Punishment, pg. 13*CHAPTER 2: Men and Women in Prisons, pg. 52*CHAPTER 3: The New Prison Subcultures, pg. 75*CHAPTER 4: Youth in Prisons, pg. 109*CHAPTER 5: Work and Discipline in the Prison, pg. 150*CHAPTER 6: Education and Correction in the Prison, pg. 191*CHAPTER 7: The Released Prisoner in Civil Society, pg. 226*CHAPTER 8: Exclusion as Punishment, pg. 258*CHAPTER 9: The Total Institution in Nineteenth- Century France, pg. 297*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 305*INDEX, pg. 325
