RT Article
T1 Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation: Changing Economies of Punishment in England, 1780-1850
JF Social justice
VO 46
IS 4
SP 5
OP 30
A1 Moore, J. M.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747153826
AB The article discusses the evolution of state punishments in England from 1780 to 1850. Topics include how punishments through the use of infliction of pain to the body in public were replaced by imprisonment, the increase in the use of imprisonment, executions, whippings, and transportation in England during the period, and the reasons why the government of England favored imprisonment as a state punishment in the second half of the 19th century.
K1 Felonies
K1 Legal History
K1 Alternatives to imprisonment
K1 Prison reform
K1 Law reform
K1 Social Order
K1 Punishment