Penological and Preventive Principles, with Special Reference to Europe and America, and to Crime, Pauperism.,.

orig.cloth Rubbed. Binding corner bump. Some spine darkening. Good. 23x15cm, xii,480,(2)pp, Second and Enlarged Edition. Bookplate. A crack to interior hinges. Full title reads: "Penological and preventive principles, with special reference to Europe and America, and to crime, pauperism, and their prevention; prisons and their substitutes; habitual offenders; conditional liberation; sentences; capital punishment; intemperance; prostitution; neglected youth; education [and] police, by William Tallack". Contents: Principles Essential for Diminishing Crime & Pauperism; Crimes of Society; The Social Crime Against Prisoners; The Social Crime of Cruel Laxity; Prison Separation & Classification; A Progressive System of Sentences; On Sentences in General; Habitual Offenders & Supervision; Land Cultivation by Prisoners & Free Men; Perpetual, or Life, Imprisonment; The Punishment of Death; Prison Labour; Prison Officers, Their Responsibility to God; The Aid of Discharged Prisoners; Pauperism, Suggestions for its Prevention; Child-Saving; Intemperence: Its Dimunition; Prostitution; Subsititutes for Imprisonment; Corporal Punishment; Criminal Statistics; The Police, Especially in Relation to Pawnbrokers, Publicans, Prostitutes & the Prevention of Crime; John Howard's Practical Principles; Christianity the Chief Basis for Moral Reforms & Restraints; Appendices: The International Prison Congress of Paris, 1895; A Glance at 19th Century Progress. Rubbed. Binding corner bump. Some spine darkening. Good. …