Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Reform

by Emily Katherine Ferkaluk

Book Overview

This book presents an interpretive analysis of the major themes and purpose of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first work, On the Penitentiary System, thereby offering new insights into Tocqueville as a moderate liberal statesman. The book explores Tocqueville's thinking on penitentiaries as the best possible solution to recidivism, his approach to colonial imperialism, and his arguments on moral reformation of prisoners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030092690
• ISBN13: 9783030092696
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"