Behind bars: letters from history's most famous prisoners

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all. It is a story that runs from St Paul right up to the present day.The act of depriving someone of their liber...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Drake, James (Editor) ; Smyth, Edward (Editor) ; Aitken, Jonathan 1942- (Writer of preface)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: London Oxford New York New Delhi Sidney Bloomsbury Continuum 2024
In:Year: 2024
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
Table of Contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Aggregator)
Blurb
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 21 A 3928
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Subito Delivery Service: Order now.
Keywords:
Anthologien (nicht Lyrik)
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Diaries, letters & journals
HISTORY / Social History
LCO015000
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
Penology & punishment
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Social & Cultural History
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Strafrechtswissenschaft (Pönologie)
Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher
Briefsammlung
Description
Summary:Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all. It is a story that runs from St Paul right up to the present day.The act of depriving someone of their liberty is one of humankinds most enduring responses to crime through history. What society has sought to achieve over the years by doing so has shifted across the centuries and there is now a variety of purposes: to express disapproval; for the purpose of straight-up punishment through the removal of freedom; to protect the general public; to rehabilitate, perhaps even to forget about those with whom we simply cannot cope. The letters assembled here come from all parts of the world, and from time immemorial: Thomas Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots, Eamon De Valera, Al Capone, Martin Luther King and many more.These letters not only reveal what it is like to be behind bars, but raise issues that are still of pressing interest for us today - such as the death penalty, miscarriages of justice, redemption and social change. They shed light on a system which is primarily one of contradictions - there are letters which inspire, horrify, letters which awe and condemn - even letters which make you laugh or cry
Physical Description:XVII, 299 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781399413893