Johnston (Helen), Punishment and control in historical perspective
It is tempting to compare this collection to the book by Rebecca McLennan that I also reviewed for CHS. On agreeableness of length the Johnston volume, with 240 pages of text, wins, because the other book has twice as many. For the rest, the advantages of a single-authored study over the average ed...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2010
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | It is tempting to compare this collection to the book by Rebecca McLennan that I also reviewed for CHS. On agreeableness of length the Johnston volume, with 240 pages of text, wins, because the other book has twice as many. For the rest, the advantages of a single-authored study over the average edited collection are obvious. This is the more so, since the very first chapter in the volume under review has Sing Sing for its subject, so that it is made superfluous by McLennan’s study. As if th... |
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