Want of Order and Good Discipline, A - Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison

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A book which examines the resistance in the Welsh prison system to national trends that were favouring prison as a penal measure, rather than as a place of capital and corporal mea sures. It examines in detail the operation of Carmarthen Gaol in the period c.1840-1877, offering an account of the relationship between a local gaol, its staff and its prisoners, and its location. Show more