Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Reform

• Main Author: Ferkaluk, Emily Katherine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Recovering Political Philosophy,
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.

This book presents an interpretive analysis of the major themes and purpose of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first work, On the Penitentiary System, thereby offering new insights into Tocqueville as a moderate liberal statesman. The book explores Tocqueville's thin...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Introduction to Tocqueville's First WorkChapter 1: Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Theory
• 2. Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Theory
• 3. Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Activity
• 4. Tocqueville's Moderation and Lieber's Idealism in Penal Reform
• 5. Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Reform After 1832
• 6. Conclusion: Tocqueville's Penal Reform and Today's Penal Problems.