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Maconochie's Gentlemen

The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform

By: Norval Morris

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Maconochie's Gentlemen

The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform

By: Norval Morris

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts. In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.

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Oxford University Press

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ISBN 10

0195347056

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9780195347050

Between Prison and Probation

Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System

By: Norval Morris,Michael Tonry

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Between Prison and Probation

Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System

By: Norval Morris,Michael Tonry

Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on probation, it is clear we are experiencing a crisis in our penal system. In Between Prison and Probation, Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. They argue that our overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the flow of convicted offenders because the two extremes of punishment--imprisonment and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishment including fines and other financial sanctions, community service, house arrest, intensive probation, closely supervised treatment programs for drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and electronic monitoring of movement. Used in rational combinations, these "intermediate" punishments would better serve the community than our present polarized choice. Serious consideration of these punishments has been hindered by the widespread perception that they are therapeutic rather than punitive. The reality, however, Morris and Tonry argue, "is that the American criminal justice system is both too severe and too lenient--almost randomly." Systematically implemented and rigorously enforced, intermediate punishments can "better and more economically serve the community, the victim, and the criminal than the prison terms and probation orders they supplant." Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy of an increasing use of intermediate punishments; the book also addresses the difficult task of fitting these punishments into a comprehensive, fair and community-protective sentencing system.

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294

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Oxford University Press

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0195361199

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9780195361193

AIA Guide to New York City

By: Norval White,Elliot Willensky,Fran Leadon,American Institute of Architects. New York Chapter

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AIA Guide to New York City

By: Norval White,Elliot Willensky,Fran Leadon,American Institute of Architects. New York Chapter

The AIA Guide to New York City has been the ultimate single-volume guide to the City's architectural treasures."--Back cover.

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1080

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Oxford University Press

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0195383869

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9780195383867

Madness and the Criminal Law

By: Norval Morris

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Madness and the Criminal Law

By: Norval Morris

Discusses the criminal responsibility of the mentally ill, looks at involuntary conduct, and argues that mental illness should affect sentencing, but not determine guilt or innocence

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0226539083

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9780226539089

Book's by Norval Morris

Maconochie's Gentlemen

Maconochie's Gentlemen

Between Prison and Probation

Between Prison and Probation

AIA Guide to New York City

AIA Guide to New York City

Madness and the Criminal Law

Madness and the Criminal Law

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