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Author : Arthur Griffiths
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Arthur Griffiths and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465604170
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Non-Criminal Prisons written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE three principal prisons in London in the fourteenth century were the Fleet, the KingÕs Bench and the Marshalsea, but Newgate took precedence in interest because identified with its earliest history. All have their peculiar histories full of interesting associations, replete with memories of famous inmates and striking incidents, and all are worthy of detailed description. All alike received prisoners for debt and on occasion, more heinous offenders, especially in the earlier years of their existence. The old KingÕs Bench was the peculiar prison for the Court of that name, but it also took debtors committed by the Court of Exchequer and the Court of Common Pleas. The Marshalsea Court, so called from having been originally under the control of the Knight Marshal of the Royal Household, was at first intended to settle differences between the lesser servants of the palace, and had its own judge, counsel and attorneys, but none except members of CliffordÕs Inn were permitted to practise in this court. The jurisdiction of this court extended twelve miles round Whitehall, excluding the city of London. It also served the Admiralty Court and received prisoners charged with piracy. The Fleet prison took its name from the little stream long stigmatised as the ÒFleet Ditch,Ó the open sewer or water-way which rose in the eastern ridge of Hampstead Hill, flowed by ÒOldbourneÓ or Holborn under four bridges to discharge into the Thames on the west side of Blackfriars bridge. As time passed this ditch, after being deepened once or twice to allow for water traffic, became more and more pestilential and was at length filled up and arched over, becoming then the site of Fleet Market in what is now known as Farringdon Street, on which the main gates of the prison opened. The building was of great antiquity and is first mentioned in authentic records about A. D. 1197. A deed of that date granted it to the safe keeping of one Nathaniel de Leveland and his son Robert, in conjunction with the KingÕs Houses at Westminster. It is stated that the Fleet prison had been the inheritance of the Levelands since the time of the Norman Conquest. Four years later this same Robert de Leveland petitioned King John for leave to hand over the wardenship of the Fleet to Simon Fitz-Robert, archdeacon of Wells, while he, Leveland, proceeded with the crusaders to the Holy Land. He returned very shortly afterward, as appears from a grant of moneys made him by the City of London in 1205, his salary for guardianship of the prison. His wife Margaret was also granted an allowance as keeper of the Westminster Royal Houses.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736420242
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and published by anboco. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oriental Prisons: Prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt and Turkey. It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from generation to generation and become not only a tradition but an established fact, is accepted as such by the people, who display only a passive indifference to deeds of cruelty and violence. Each country has its own peculiar classes of hereditary criminals, and the influence of tradition and long established custom has made the eradication of such crimes a difficult matter. Religion in the East has had a most notable influence on crime. In India the Thugs or professional stranglers were most devout and their criminal acts were preceded by religious rites and ceremonies. In China the peculiar forms of animism pervading the religion of the people has greatly influenced criminal practices. Murder veiled in obscurity is frequently attributed to some one of the legion of evil spirits who are supposed to be omnipresent; and to satisfy and appease these demons innocent persons are made to suffer. So great, too, is the power of the spirit after death to cause good or ill, that many stories are related of victims of vi injustice who have hanged themselves on their persecutors' door-posts, thus converting their spirits into wrathful ghosts to avenge them. The firm belief in ghosts and their power of vengeance and reward is a great restraint in the practice of infanticide, as the souls of murdered infants may seek vengeance and bring about serious calamity. Oriental prison history is one long record of savage punishments culminating in the death penalty, aggravated by abominable tortures. The people are of two classes, the oppressed and the oppressors, and the last named have invented many devices for legal persecution. In early China and Japan, relentless and ferocious methods were in force.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781406859225
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (592 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War, and French and American War Prisons. Griffiths was a former Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain and published more than 60 books on military history, crime and punishment, and also mystery crime novels.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
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ISBN 13 : 9781406877199
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime; Spanish Prisons (Illustrated Edition) written by Arthur Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griffiths was a prison administrator and author who published more than 60 books, many on the theme of crime and punishment.
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465605649
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Chtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The judicial administration of France had its origin in the Feudal System. The great nobles ruled their estates side by side with, and not under, the King. With him the great barons exercised ÒhighÓ justice, extending to life and limb. The seigneurs and great clerics dispensed ÒmiddleÓ justice and imposed certain corporal penalties, while the power of ÒlowÓ justice, extending only to the amende and imprisonment, was wielded by smaller jurisdictions. The whole history of France is summed up in the persistent effort of the King to establish an absolute monarchy, and three centuries were passed in a struggle between nobles, parliaments and the eventually supreme ruler. Each jurisdiction was supported by various methods of enforcing its authority: All, however, had their prisons, which served many purposes. The prison was first of all a place of detention and durance where people deemed dangerous might be kept out of the way of doing harm and law-breakers could be called to account for their misdeeds. Accused persons were in it held safely until they could be arraigned before the tribunals, and after conviction by legal process were sentenced to the various penalties in force. The prison was de facto the high road to the scaffold on which the condemned suffered the extreme penalty by one or another of the forms of capital punishment, and death was dealt out indifferently by decapitation, the noose, the stake or the wheel. Too often where proof was weak or wanting, torture was called in to assist in extorting confession of guilt, and again, the same hideous practice was applied to the convicted, either to aggravate their pains or to compel the betrayal of suspected confederates and accomplices. The prison reflected every phase of passing criminality and was the constant home of wrong-doers of all categories, heinous and venial. Offenders against the common law met their just retribution. Many thousands were committed for sins political and non-criminal, the victims of an arbitrary monarch and his high-handed, irresponsible ministers. The prison was the KingÕs castle, his stronghold for the coercion and safe-keeping of all who conspired against his person or threatened his peace. It was a social reformatory in which he disciplined the dissolute and the wastrel, the loose-livers of both sexes, who were thus obliged to run straight and kept out of mischief by the stringent curtailment of their liberty. The prison, last of all, played into the hands of the rich against the poor, active champion of the commercial code, taking the side of creditors by holding all debtors fast until they could satisfy the legal, and at times illegal demands made upon them.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781406870602
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Early French Prisons (Illustrated Edition) written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griffiths was a former Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain and in addition to his works on military history and a number of mystery crime novels, he wrote extensively on the history of penal institutions at home and abroad.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539795575
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Non-Criminal Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1900.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
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ISBN 13 : 9781406884753
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griffiths (1838-1908) was a prison administrator and author who published over 60 books. As a military historian he wrote extensively about the wars of the 19th century, then later turned to accounts of crime and punishment.The success of the latter led in turn to a number of mystery crime novels. This title is part of his series on 'The Romance and History of Crime from the Earliest Times to the Present Day' and includes three illustrations.
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146560667X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: German and Austrian Prisons, Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in penal matters in Germany and in Austria-Hungary centres rather in the nature and number of persons who commit crimes than the methods pursued in bringing them to justice or the places in which penalties have been imposed. The character and extent of crimes committed from time to time, attracts us more generally than the prisons designed and established for their punishment. This is the more marked because such prisons have not achieved any remarkable prominence or notoriety. They have been for the most part the ordinary institutions used for detention, repression and correction, more noted for the offenders they have held than their own imposing appearance, architectural pretensions, or the changes they have introduced in the administration of justice. Only in more recent years, since so-called penitentiary science has come to the front and the comparative value of prison systems has been much discussed, have certain institutions risen into prominence in Germany and become known as model prisons. These have been erected in various capitals of the empire, to give effect to new principles in force in the administration of justice. Among such places we may specify a few, such as Bruchsal in Baden; the Moabit prison in Berlin; the prison at Zwickau in Saxony; the prisons of Munich and Nürnberg in Bavaria and of Heilbronn in Württemberg. To these may be added the prisons of Stein on the Danube, of Marburg on the Drave, and of Pankraz Nusle near Prague in Austria-Hungary. Many others might be mentioned which have played an important part in the development of penitentiary institutions. The conflict of opinions as to prison treatment has raged continuously and as yet no uniform plan has been adopted for the whole German Empire. Each of the constituent states of the great aggregate body has maintained its independence in penal matters and the right to determine for itself the best method of punishing crime. At one time, after 1846, the theory of complete isolation was accepted in all German states, although the means to carry it into effect were not universally adopted. Reports from the United States had deeply impressed the authorities with the merits of solitary confinement, among others the well known Professor Mittermaier, one of the most notable judicial authorities of his time. But reaction came with another no less eminent expert, Von Holtzendorff, whose works on prison administration are still held in great esteem. After visiting Ireland, he was won over to the seeming advantages of the progressive system, the gradual change from complete isolation to comparative freedom, and he strongly favoured the policy of cellular imprisonment. His proposals laid hold of the practical German mind, and to-day the scheme of continuous isolation finds little support; it left its mark, however, in several prisons which will be referred to in the following pages.
Author : Major Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533548207
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime; written by Major Arthur Griffiths and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1920-05-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tomb of Hadrian, or Castle of St. Angelo, as it has been called since the famous vision of Gregory the Great, is a familiar object to every stranger in Rome. It stands above the yellow Tiber facing the ancient Aelian Bridge, now called also the Bridge of St. Angelo on the main road to St. Peter's and the Vatican. It is connected with the latter by a subterranean passage built by Pope Alexander VI in 1500, and used by his successors as a path of retreat to the fortress in times of internal revolt or foreign attack. The great fortress prison, although dismantled of the marble that once covered its stones, is still a most imposing edifice and is second to none in the world in its historic memories, replete with strange and terrible interest. It is an epitome of Roman history, closely associated from the beginning of the Christian era down to the fall of the temporal power of the Popes, with the storms and struggles that have rent the Eternal City. Any account of Italian prisons must thus centre about this grim old relic of the Cæsars,
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465524266
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Modern French Prisons written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1830 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period in French prison practice treated in this volume is one of transition between the end of the Old Régime and the beginning of the New. It presents first a view of the prisons of the period immediately following the Revolution, and concludes with the consideration of a great model penitentiary, which may be said to be the “last word” in the purely physical aspects of the whole question, while its very perfection of structure and equipment gives rise to important moral questions, which must dominate the future of prison conduct. Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century the combat with the great army of depredators was unceasingly waged by the champions of law and order in France, to whom in the long run victory chiefly inclined. As yet none of the new views held by prison reformers in other countries had made any progress in France. No ideas of combining coercion with persuasion, of going beyond deterrence by attempting reformation by exhortation; of curing the wrong-doer and weaning him from his evil practices, when once more sent out into the world, obtained in French penology. At that earlier date all the old methods, worked by the same machinery, still prevailed and were, as ever, ineffective in checking crime. An active, and for the most part intelligent police was indefatigable in the pursuit of offenders, who, when caught and sentenced travelled the old beaten track, passing from prison to prison, making long halts at the bagnes and concluding their persistent trespasses upon the guillotine, but that was all. French prisons long lagged behind advanced practices abroad, not only in respect of their structural fitness and physical condition, but also in the measure in which the method of conducting them effected the morals of those who passed through them. When the question was at last presented, it was considered with the logical thoroughness and carried out with the administrative efficiency characteristic of the French government, when impressed with the necessity for action in any given line. The question for the French prison authorities—as indeed it is the question of questions for the prison government of all nations—is now: “What can be and shall be done for the reform of the convict rather than for his mere repression and punishment?” The material aspects of the French prison system have attained almost to perfection. These, as well as the moral aspects of the subject, which that very physical perfection inevitably presents, it is the purpose of this volume to consider.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
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ISBN 13 : 9781152782952
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Arthur Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume: 9 Publisher: London: The Grolier Society Publication date: 1900 Subjects: Crime Prisons Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Author : Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523770649
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime - German and Austrian Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the Introduction: "Interest in penal matters in Germany and in Austria-Hungary centres rather in the nature and number of persons who commit crimes than the methods pursued in bringing them to justice or the places in which penalties have been imposed. The character and extent of crimes committed from time to time, attracts us more generally than the prisons designed and established for their punishment. This is the more marked because such prisons have not achieved any remarkable prominence or notoriety. They have been for the most part the ordinary institutions used for detention, repression and correction, more noted for the offenders they have held than their own imposing appearance, architectural pretensions, or the changes they have introduced in the administration of justice. Only in more recent years, since so-called penitentiary science has come to the front and the comparative value of prison systems has been much discussed, have certain institutions risen into prominence in Germany and become known as model prisons."
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465604189
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Prisons Over Seas written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊIt will hardly be denied after an impartial consideration of all the facts I shall herein set forth, that the British prison system can challenge comparison with any in the world. It may be no more perfect than other human institutions, but its administrators have laboured long and steadfastly to approximate perfection. Many countries have already paid it the compliment of imitation. In most of the British colonies, the prison system so nearly resembles the system of the mother country, that I have not given their institutions any separate and distinct description. No doubt different methods are employed in the great Empire of India; but they also are the outcome of experience, and follow lines most suited to the climate and character of the people for whom they are intended. Cellular imprisonment would be impossible in India. Association is inevitable in the Indian prison system. Again, it is the failure to find suitable European subordinate officers that has brought about the employment of the best-behaved prisoners in the discipline of their comrades: a system, as I have been at some pains to point out, quite abhorrent to modern ideas of prison management. As for the retention of transportation by the Indian government, when so clearly condemned at home, it is defensible on the grounds that the penalty of crossing the sea, the "Black Water," possesses peculiar terrors to the Oriental mind; and the Andaman Islands are, moreover, within such easy distance as to ensure their effective supervision and control. Nearer home, we may see Austria adopting an English method,Ñthe "movable" or temporary prison, by the use of which such works as changing the courses of rivers have been rendered possible and the prison edifices of Lepoglava, Aszod and Kolosvar erected, in imitation of Chattenden, Borstal and Wormwood Scrubs. France has also constructed in the outskirts of Paris a new prison for the department of the Seine, and she may yet find that the British progressive system is more effective for controlling habitual crime than transportation to New Caledonia. In a country where every individual is ticketed and labelled from birth, where police methods are quite despotic, and the law claims the right, in the interests of the larger number, to override the liberty of the subject, the professional criminal might be held at a tremendous disadvantage. It is true that the same result might be expected from the Belgian plan of prolonged cellular confinement; but, as I shall point out, this system is more costly, and can only be enforced with greater or less, but always possible, risks to health and reason.
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Non-criminal Prisons written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465604235
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The History and Romance of Crime: Millbank Penitentiary written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millbank Prison stood for nearly a century upon the banks of the Thames between Westminster and Vauxhall, a well-known gloomy pile by the river side, with its dull exterior, black portals, and curious towers. This once famous prison no longer attracts the wide attention of former days but the very name contains in itself almost an epitome of British penal legislation. With it one intimately associates such men as John Howard and Jeremy Bentham; an architect of eminence superintended its erection; while statesmen and high dignitaries, dukes, bishops, and members of Parliament were to be found upon its committee of management, exercising a control that was far from nominal or perfunctory, not disdaining a close consideration of the minutest details, and coming into intimate personal communion with the criminal inmates, whom, by praise or admonition, they sought to reward or reprove. Its origin and the causes that brought it into being; its object, and the success or failure of those who ruled it; its annals, and the curious incidents with which they are filled,Ñthese are topics of much interest to the general reader. At this distant time it is indeed interesting to observe how thoroughly John Howard understood the subject to which he had devoted his life. In his prepared plan for the erection of the prison he anticipates exactly the method we are pursuing to-day, after more than a century of experience. ÒThe Penitentiary Houses,Ó he says, ÒI would have built in a great measure by the convicts. I will suppose that a power is obtained from Parliament to employ such of them as are now at work on the Thames, or some of those who are in the county gaols, under sentence of transportation, as may be thought most expedient. In the first place, let the surrounding wall, intended for full security against escapes, be completed, and proper lodges for the gatekeepers. Let temporary buildings of the nature of barracks be erected in some part of this enclosure which will be wanted the least, till the whole is finished. Let one or two hundred men, with their proper keepers, and under the direction of the builder, be employed in levelling the ground, digging out the foundation, serving the masons, sawing the timber and stone; and as I have found several convicts who were carpenters, masons, and smiths, these may be employed in their own branches of trade, since such work is as necessary and proper as any other in which they can be engaged. Let the people thus employed chiefly consist of those whose term is nearly expired, or who are committed for a short term; and as the ground is suitably prepared for the builders, the garden made, the wells dug, and the building finished, let those who are to be dismissed go off gradually, as it would be very improper to send them back to the hulks or gaols again.Ó
