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Dealing with death: executions, imprisonment and the English people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Alison Liebling
Alison Liebling
Affiliation:
Institute Of Criminology, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 833 - 838
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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References

1 See the excellent review by Roger, Hood in the Times Higher Education Supplement, 15 Sept. 1995, p. 29.Google Scholar

2 One reflects with some irony upon the recent proliferation of landmark reports and the committees who produced them – Woolf (whose focus was inevitably upon local prisons), Woodcock and Learmont (whose personal agendas have taken the prison service along an altogether new road) – and wonders whether they will receive the detached and intelligent reflections of such an historian in time. See Woolf, report (1991) Prison disturbances, London: HMSPGoogle Scholar; Home Office (1995) The escape from Whitemoor prison (The Woodcock report), London: HMSOGoogle Scholar; Home Office (1995) Review of prison service security in England and Wales and the escape from Parkhurstprison (the Learmont report), London: HMSO.Google Scholar

3 See Hansard Lords Debate on The prison service, pp. 1064–1100, 1995.

4 Instruction to Governors (IG 74/1995), Incentives and earned privileges for prisoners: national framework.