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CARPENTER ( Mary ). Reformatory prison discipline, as developed by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton

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CARPENTER ( Mary ). Reformatory prison discipline, as developed by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
CARPENTER ( Mary ). Reformatory prison discipline, as developed by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton, in the Irish convict prisons. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyrer [Bristol printed] 1872FIRST EDITION, with a folding table, pp xv, 143 and advert leaf, small 8vo, original brown cloth : light foxing of title-page otherwise a remarkably bright, fresh and attractive copy."The object of Prison Discipline is to transform offenders into honest self-supporting men and women, and eventually to minimise crime in Society." - Intro. Mary Carpenter (1807-77), philanthropist, was primarily concerned with the plight of the poor, both in England and in India. In 1846 she opened a ragged school in Lewin's Mead, Bristol and while improving the buildings etc. she began to consider the possibility of schools, which by the application of moral discipline, might reform young offenders. Her ideas thus spread naturally from the condition of the children of the poor to the need for reformatories and industrial schools.IRELAND; PENOLOGY; PENAL REFORM; PRISONS; WOMEN WRITERS; ; ; ; ; ; ;