Carrafiello, Susan B.
"The Tombs of the Living"

Prisons and Prison Reform in Liberal Italy.

Relying on archival and published material, this study examines prison reform, and especially the idea of the penitentiary, in Italy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its first goal is to examine the theories of prison reform developed by Italian intellectuals, politicians, and prison reformers before and after the national unification of 1861. Its second aim is to calculate how effectively these ideas were realized and implemented in Italy, especially during the liberal era, 1861-1915. Lastly, it seeks to explain what Italy's success or failure in prison reform reveals about the Italian state after unification, especially focusing on the underlying social, political and economic conditions. VII,138 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Modern European History; Vol. 24/Peter Lang Verlag 1998) Mängelexemplar/near mint