Abstract

The punishment of crime has a fascinating history, to which the four volumes we will consider in this review add much detail and some explanation. The most sweeping of these accounts is Michel Foucault's analysis of the birth of the prison in France.' Foucault notes that something very important in the history of crime and punishment occurred in Western capitalist societies when the public punishment of the criminal body gave way to the more private punishment of the criminal mind. There is no substitute for Foucault's graphic reconstruction of how torturous the former punishments could be. Thus,

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