The Rise and Decline of Solitary Confinement

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ID8400552
AuthorsHerman Franke (Institute of Criminology, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume32
Issue2
Pages125-143
Publication date1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048186
OpenAlexW2306539964
LanguageEN
Citations received8

When the Amsterdam lawyer Henricus Calkoen wrote his treatise ‘On the Prevention and Punishment of Crime’ in 1780, he hardly mentioned imprisonment as a form of judicial punishment. In those days criminals in Holland were more often punished by death, physical suffering, banishment, and fines than by locking them up in prisons. That was to change rather quickly. In this article I will describe and analyse the development of imprisonment in The Netherlands and other countries in the Western world since the end of the eighteenth century. I will start with a critique of current socio-historical explanations of developments in the punishment of criminals. I will then go on to analyse those developments as related parts of blind, largely unplanned, yet structured processes. It will become clear that the structure of those processes sheds light on the increasing use of penilentiaries and solitary confinement in the nineteenth century.1

Criminology · Imprisonment · Political science · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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