Scenes From a Silent World - Or, Prisons and Their Inmates

Klappentext In this 1889 work, Felicia Skene used her experience of prison visiting to criticise the penal system and capital punishment. Zusammenfassung This 1889 work on prisons! capital punishment! and the need for reform! was based on experience of prison visiting. Skene makes a humane and non-judgmental case for the rehabilitation as well as punishment of prisoners! and against capital punishment. She actively helped prisoners and their families without distinction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A strange life and death; 2. The end of a bitter experience; 3. The acquittal of a murderer; 4. The desire of death; 5. A dream crime; 6. The death penalty.

Product details

• Authors: Felicia Skene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9781108021913
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02191-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history