Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Wintersemester 1999/2000. / Bibliogr. p. 375-425. Index.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed April 7, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-129).

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Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 187 p. Bibliography: p. 176-187.

D.E.A.--Hist. de l'art--Paris 4, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 114.

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In 1840 all the burgh gaols of Scotland came under the direction of the General Prison Board operating through local county prison boards.  The burgh gaols had been the principal places of incarceration for both criminals and debtors since the Act of 1597.  No bridewells or houses of correction of any importance were established in Scotland until the end of the eighteenth century and then only in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and eventually Aberdeen.   At the same time the burgh gaols were seen as quite unsuited as places of incarceration but the great majority of the burghs did not have the financial resources to undertake major prison building without help from landed proprietors. Between 1815 and 1939 there were a number of initiatives which attempted to redress the situation. This thesis shows that some of these were generally more successful that it was thought except in the northern counties of Scotland, and in so doing touches on some of the major debates and themes of Scotties history like the inflammability or otherwise of the Scots, the role of voluntarism in society, the centre/civil society axis and the Anglicisation and centralisation following parliamentary reform.  Central to the matter are the relationships between burghs and counties and between the local bodies and the centre.  The role of the newly-established prison inspectorate and how the legislation of 1839 came to be passed and what it achieved are considered.

The Iranian prison is the subject of intense scrutiny for both opponents and supporters of the contemporary Islamic Republic. Despite these concerns, the 19th-20th history of Iranian crime and punishment has been given short shrift by scholars and political analysts alike. The historiographical silence on the history of confinement in modern Iran runs counter to an earlier Iranian intellectual trend, which took it as axiomatic that to live an ethical life meant eventual incarceration and probable torture. This dissertation argues that the prison has been a preeminent site from which modern discourses on rights, citizenship, justice, and the law have been staged, contested, and enacted. Through a study of previously unremarked on archives I argue that the history of the prison in Iran is no less than the fitful history of Iranian political modernity.