List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction1. Punishment before Italian Unification2. The Failed Revolution in Punishment3. Prison Consolidation and Reform4. Women and the Convent Prison5. Men: From Chains to the Penitentiary6. Juvenile Reformatories between State and Charity7. Prisons on the Margin: Police Camps and Criminal Insane Asylums8. Laboratories of Criminal AnthropologyBibliographyIndex

Academic interest in the history of crime and punishment has never been greater and the History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment series provides a home for the wealth of newresearch being produced. Individual volumes within the series cover topics related to the history of crime and punishment, from the later medieval to modern period, and seek to demonstrate the importance of this subject in furthering understanding of the way in which various societies and cultures operate. When taken together, the works in the series will show the evolution of the nature of illegality and attitudes towards its perpetration over time and will offer their readers a rounded andcoherent history of crime and punishment through the centuries. The series' broad chronological and geographical coverage encourages comparative historical analysis of crime history between countries and cultures.Series Editor: Professor Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK)Editorial Board:Professor Bill Miller (Stony Brook University, USA)Professor Marianna Muravyeva (National Research University, Russia)Professor Neil Davie (University of Lyon II, France)Professor Johannes Dillinger (Oxford Brookes University, UK)Dr Louise Nyholm Kallestrup (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)Dr Mark Roodhouse (University of York, UK)Dr Anja Johansen (University of Dundee, UK)Professor David Nash (Oxford Brookes University, UK)Dr Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University, UK)