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The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider
The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic by David J. Rothman
Review Of Crime In England, 1550-1800, Thomas A. Green
Review Of Crime In England, 1550-1800, Thomas A. Green
Reviews
Crime in England, 1550-1800, is the second collection of essays on the social history of crime and the criminal law in early modern England to appear in recent years. Together with the essays in Albion's Fatal Tree (1975),' these offerings advance our knowledge of the subject considerably. To be sure, as G. R. Elton cautions, there are methodological problems in a field so new, and Elton's "Introduction" will serve as an excellent starting point for readers concerned with such matters. We must nevertheless recognize the accomplishments of the new school of socio-legal historians. The essays in this volume deal with …