This thesis explores the crowds that attended London's executions, pillories and public whippings during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It aims to reappraise a literature describing the carnivalesque and voyeuristic nature of popular behaviour, and to trace a continuum in the public's active engagement with the criminal justice system between 1783 and 1868. By employing a range of little used sources to examine the biographical, geographical and social texture of punishment audiences, it details the lives and motivations of the men, women and children who assembled to watch these often brutal events. In the process, this thesis significantly revises our received understanding of the troublesome punishment 'mob', the unruliness and low character of which has been frequently assumed on the basis of uncritical reading of contemporary sources inveighing against plebeian behaviour. It reveals a more stable picture of public participation, and argues that this experience was characterized by the remarkable social diversity and relative good order of the crowd. This study in consequence problematizes teleological narratives of social 'improvement' and a putative 'civilizing process', which have traditionally described the fall of public punishments as a product of changing urban sensitivities. In analysing the crowd's structure and responses to public punishments over time, the thesis demonstrates how popular expectations surrounding older forms of public justice remained essentially unchanged, and continued to speak forcefully to the metropolitan conscience. To explain the undoubted changes in punishment policy in the period, in the absence of a clear teleological narrative of attitudes towards public punishment, the thesis in turn argues that the decline of the pillory, whippings and public executions in London was driven by elite fears regarding mass behaviour, particularly in the wake of the Gordon Riots of 1780, and suggests that public punishments disappeared not because of their dwindling moral relevance or failing penal utility, but as a result of the middle class's increasingly nervous perceptions of urban mass phenomena. The thesis argues that the decline of public punishment did not result from 'squeamishness' about judicial murder and corporal punishment, but from anxiety about the authority and power of the crowd.

Cette thèse porte sur les limites du pouvoir étatique de restreindre les droits des détenus. Afin d'explorer cette question, l’auteur identifie les spécificités de ces limitations qui peuvent influencer la justification de leur application. Ces spécificités rendent la justification des limitations en milieu pénitentiaire plus facile par rapport à celles des citoyens libres. La thèse propose des barrières juridiques améliorées contre les limitations non-justifiées.L’auteur propose une théorie originale sur la nature juridique des limitations aux droits des détenus. Il décrit aussi les normes pertinentes développées par l’ONU et le Conseil de l’Europe (la Cour européenne et le Comité pour la prévention de la torture) ainsi que les normes nationales encadrées par la législation et la jurisprudence. Une analyse critique de ces normes est menée afin de comprendre leurs défauts et de prévenir la commission d’erreurs à l’avenir.La doctrine populaire selon laquelle les détenus conservent tous les droits sauf ceux qui sont incompatibles avec l'emprisonnement est rejetée car elle s’avère peu protectrice du point de vue juridique. En revanche, d’autres axes d’amélioration des clauses limitatives existantes en droit pénitentiaire sont proposés. Il s’agit de la construction de garanties procédurales contre l’abus de limitations non-justifiées et notamment du renforcement du rôle du contrôle judiciaire ainsi que de l’application du principe de proportionnalité. L’application légitime de ce principe est plus complexe en monde libre qu’en milieu fermé ; elle requiert sans doute non de s’appuyer non seulement sur des arguments juridiques et logiques, mais encore sur des arguments empiriques. / This thesis focuses on the limits of the State’s power in restricting prisoners’ rights. In order to explore this issue, the author identifies the specificities of these limitations which can influence the justification of their use. Due to these specificities, it is easier to justify the limitations of prisoners’ rights than to those of free citizens. It is on this basis that the thesis suggests to improve legal barriers against the unjustified limitations of prisoners' rights.The author develops an original theory pertaining to the legal nature of limitations applied to prisoners' rights. Furthermore, he describes the standards developed by the UN and the Council of Europe (the European Court and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture) which apply to these limitations, as well as the relevant national standards defined by legislations and/or jurisprudence. A critical analysis of these standards is conducted with the purpose of understanding their flaws and preventing them in the future.The popular view according to which detainees retain all their rights, with the sole exception of those that are incompatible with imprisonment is rejected as not providing sufficient legal protection. This thesis presents alternative ideas for improving restrictive prison law clauses. Particular attention is paid to the construction of procedural safeguards against the abuse of unjustified limitations, including strengthening the role of judicial review and the principle of proportionality. In a security context, it is more complicated to apply this principle legitimately as it might require not only legal and logical arguments, but also empirical data.

1. RESUMÉ Aim of this work was afer to effect of education on repeated criminal activity made of prisoners of age 18-26. For gears of this work I specificity triple style of education, that is mean education in functional family, in functionless family and institutional care. And effect of particular educations scope I showed by researched in prison Horní Slavkov. We can say, that young prisoners belongs to the group of prisoners, which can be somehow affected. Their preparing for return to the sociality is absolutely necessary. It is evident, that every group of young prisoners has own specifics gained through education. We can't affect this way of education, so it is important to influence on young prisoners in the execution of punishment. This influence works through programmes of treatment in the prisons. That's why I would like to appeal to create this programmes individualy especially for young prisoners. I deal with this ways of treatment on prisoners in the age 18 - 26 in the last part of this work. I offer several variations which should provide or at least increase better resocialization of young prisoners to the society and through this lower number of recidivist in this age group. These variations needs some law correcitons. I tried to summarize a most important points in variation, which...