Bruce F. Adams examines how Russia's Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prisoners it managed in what types of prisons, and what it accomplished.
The work therefore offers a new framework for the comparative study of penality. This is also an important work of sociology and history.
Views criminal punishment in America as a political reality and views prison conditions in San Quentin and Soledad together with attempts to challenge the criminal justice system. Bibliogs
Bruce F. Adams examines how Russia's Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prisoners it managed in what types of prisons, and what it accomplished.
This re-issue with a new Preface of a classic work by John Hostettler looks at the political and other social dynamics behind law, order and punishment.
Bruce F. Adams examines how Russia's Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prisoners it managed in what types of prisons, and what it accomplished.
The Politics of Punishment: Prision Reform in Russia, 1863-1917