Prison History is a scholarly construct within the historiography of punishment that examines the development, organization, and function of incarceration institutions over time, distinguishing itself by its focus on the institutional, social, and political evolution of prisons as distinct from broader penal practices.
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History Of Prisons
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
David W. Tarbet, Alan Sheridan · Eighteenth-Century Studies · 1978 · 19.3K citations
Loïc Wacquant · Punishment & Society · 2001 · 1.2K citations
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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Institute of Criminology
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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Columbia University
New York, United States
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University of Leicester
Leicester, United Kingdom
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UNSW Sydney
Sydney, Australia
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University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Victoria University of Wellington
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 93 publications · 7.4K citations
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- Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
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- The British Journal of Criminology
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- Punishment & Society
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- Journal of American History
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