On the Penitentiary System in the United States: And Its Application in France

by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont

Book Overview

On the Penitentiary System in the United States is a "graceful and thoughtful study of importance to the history of correctional theory and practice, and its republican by Southern Illinois University Press, with an excellent concise introduction by Prof. Thorsten Sellin, is commendable."-Norvel Morris, The Nation

"The Words of these two distinguished Frenchmen have a remarkably correct application in this day and generation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809309130
• ISBN13: 9780809309139
• Release Date: July 1979
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.9"