Author: Tallack, William [1831-1908]
Title: Penological and Preventive Principles, with Special Reference to Europe and America, and to Crime, Pauperism..,.
Description: London, Wertheimer, 1896. 2nd Edition, orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,480,(2)pp, Second and Enlarged Edition. Bookplate. A crack to interior hinges.. Rubbed. Binding corner bump. Some spine darkening. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Penological and preventive principles, with special reference to Europe and America, and to crime, pauperism, and their prevention; prisons and their substitutes; habitual offenders; conditional liberation; sentences; capital punishment; intemperance; prostitution; neglected youth; education [and] police, by William Tallack". Contents: Principles Essential for Diminishing Crime & Pauperism; Crimes of Society; The Social Crime Against Prisoners; The Social Crime of Cruel Laxity; Prison Separation & Classification; A Progressive System of Sentences; On Sentences in General; Habitual Offenders & Supervision; Land Cultivation by Prisoners & Free Men; Perpetual, or Life, Imprisonment; The Punishment of Death; Prison Labour; Prison Officers, Their Responsibility to God; The Aid of Discharged Prisoners; Pauperism, Suggestions for its Prevention; Child-Saving; Intemperence: Its Dimunition; Prostitution; Subsititutes for Imprisonment; Corporal Punishment; Criminal Statistics; The Police, Especially in Relation to Pawnbrokers, Publicans, Prostitutes & the Prevention of Crime; John Howard's Practical Principles; Christianity the Chief Basis for Moral Reforms & Restraints; Appendices: The International Prison Congress of Paris, 1895; A Glance at 19th Century Progress.

Keywords: British Criminology, Great Britain, Prison Prisons, Prisoners, Penal Reform, Pauperism, Crime Sociology, Social History, Penology