• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Illustrations,
• Preface,
• INTRODUCTION: Institutional History and the History of the Prison,
• CHAPTER 1: The Science of the New Punishment,
• CHAPTER 2: Men and Women in Prisons,
• CHAPTER 3: The New Prison Subcultures,
• CHAPTER 4: Youth in Prisons,
• CHAPTER 5: Work and Discipline in the Prison,
• CHAPTER 6: Education and Correction in the Prison,
• CHAPTER 7: The Released Prisoner in Civil Society,
• CHAPTER 8: Exclusion as Punishment,
• CHAPTER 9: The Total Institution in Nineteenth- Century France,
• BIBLIOGRAPHY,
• INDEX,

Patricia O'Brien traces the creation and development of a modern prison system in nineteenth-century France. The study has three principal areas of concern: prisons and their populations; the organizing principles of the system, including occupational and educational programs for rehabilitation; and the extension of punishment outside the prison walls.
Originally published in 1982.
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