The Cradle of the Penitentiary, Inscribed to Colleague Gilbert Geis
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Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB
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Teeters, Negley K. [1896-1971]. The Cradle of the Penitentiary: The Walnut Street Jail at Philadelphia, 1773-1835. [Philadelphia?]: Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Society, [1955]. xii, 152 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, very good in chipped, toned and lightly foxed dust jacket, internally clean. Author inscription "Inscribed for Prof. Gilbert Geis by the author Negley K Teeters at Philadelphia April 28, 1955" to front free endpaper. $45. * The recipient of this copy, Gilbert Geis, was an American criminologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine. He was a friend and admirer of Teeters, whom he called "a leading academic figure in the crusade for prison reform." Geis, "Negley K. Teeters (1896-1971): Pioneer in Penology," The Prison Journal 84, no. 4 (2004): 5-19.
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- The Cradle of the Penitentiary, Inscribed to Colleague Gilbert Geis
- Author
- Teeters, Negley K.
- Publication year
- 1955
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- Soft cover
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