By John Pratt
ISBN-10: 0761947523
ISBN-13: 9780761947523
ISBN-10: 0761947531
ISBN-13: 9780761947530
ISBN-10: 0761962093
ISBN-13: 9780761962090
ISBN-10: 1412933226
ISBN-13: 9781412933223
`A lucid and engaging account of ways society before everything involves be considered as 'civilized' at the foundation of ways it punishes its offenders, and a number of the numances and contradictions that shape the backdrop to that 'civilization' ahead of 1970 and the unraveling of that strategy thereafter. ...He [Pratt] has at least broadened the limits of the controversy in regards to the heritage of imprisonment in new and novel ways in which would certainly turn into a foundation for destiny research' - The Howard magazine of felony Justice 'In proposing and organizing one of these wealth of ancient fabric, John Pratt's booklet could be welcomed by way of those that train and learn the heritage of the legal within the English-speaking international' - legal Justice Punishment and Civilization examines how a framework of punishment that appropriate the values and criteria of the civilized global got here to be set in position from round 1800 to the past due twentieth century. during this ebook, John Pratt attracts on learn approximately felony structure, garments, nutrition, hygienic preparations and adjustments in penal language to set up this. the writer demonstrates that this didn't suggest, despite the fact that, that this type of framework of punishment was once 'civilized'. in its place it intended that punishment within the civilized international turned nameless and distant. felony brutalities and privations will be mostly unchecked via a public that didn't are looking to be concerned. within the previous couple of many years it has develop into transparent that civilized societies need to tolerate new obstacles of punishment. this isn't due to any improvement of 'civilized punishment'. as an alternative this is often because of a shift in public temper and tool: from public indifference to public involvement in penal improvement. all through this article theoretical principles and ideas are accessibly brought and illustrated with a variety of examples from the united kingdom, united states, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. it will likely be crucial examining for college students and lecturers of punishment, prisons and social thought.
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I do not think we need be surprised at that … the general public does not study the statistics, it does not see in fact how many murderers have not … been visited with the ultimate penalty of death. We have had evidence cited today that judges and juries themselves feel uncomfortable about the present situation. The public may not be aware of this. But it is certainly not our business to wait for public opinion in such an important issue. (Hansard [1975 Vol. I] 527, 13 March 1975) Public opinion, in fact, was something to be wary of, not to be trusted, allowing as it did sentiments of anger and uncontrolled emotion to blind it to more rational thinking: ‘the public has based its opinions solely on emotion, not on facts’.
3 See Thomas Hardy (1886: 201). 34 P U N I S H M E N T A N D C I V I L I Z AT I O N 4 See, for example, Strutt (1830), Howitt (1840), Hole (1949), Cumming (1933), Cunningham (1980). 5 See The Times, 25 March 1854: 9. 6 Where an Illustrated London News picture depicts a family being shown them by a prison guard in the early 1870s (Gatrell, 1994). 7 A screened trapdoor was used in the United States as early as 1822 (Masur, 1989). 8 The number of executions in England between 1940 and 1946 seems to have been artificially inflated by war; the mean number per year between 1940 and 1946 was 19.
What is clear is that the main body of opposition to public executions at this time, while it included some who were opposed to the death penalty in principle and therefore felt revolted by the sufferings of those on the scaffold (whether the execution took place in public or private), was far more repulsed by the macabre, distasteful carnival that was associated with them. For these groups, what carried far greater weight at this time than the sufferings of those about to be executed was the site of death, not death itself.