A Just Measure of Pain The penitentiary in the industrial revolution 1750-1850

A Just Measure of Pain The penitentiary in the industrial revolution 1750-1850

"A Just Measure of Pain" returns to the moment in eighteenth century England when the modern penitentary and its ambitious legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows came to be replaced by the prison and the idea that the criminal poor should be involved in their own rehabilitation, Ignatieff doccuments the rise of a new conception of class relations and, with it, a new philosophy of punishment, one not directed at the body but at the mind.

Ignatieff, Michael

Peregrine 1989, 251pp

SR G 205