Travelling in the Footsteps of John Howard
by
Tom Vander Beken
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on centuries of the practice of locking people up as...