Maconochie's Gentlemen
The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 September 2003
- ISBN 9780195169126
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 140x212x18 mm
- Weight 313 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 halftones & 3 maps 0
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Short description:
Norval Morris tells the story of Alexander Maconochie, one of the outstanding early pioneers in penal reform. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island provide a model with profound relevance for the running of correctional establishments today. In the era of the Super-Max and a construction boom in prisons that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. What could a new prison system focused on rehabilitation as much as punishment look like? Morris looks for the answer in the story of Maconochie's success working with one of the most brutal convict settlements in history. Maconochie devised a system on Norfolk Island that created a humane environment and achieved a high success rate in the discharges who became known, upon release, as "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Maconochie and his "Marks system" of rehabilitation played a very influential role in the early development of prisons.
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In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen".
Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts.
In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.
Readers could not ask for a better guide to this island of exiles and birthplace of prison reform. A widely published criminologist and respected academic, Morris understands the inner workings of prisons and shares with his principal characters the belief 'that punishment, allowing room for and facilitating redemption, dignifies society, makes prison service a constructive occupation and enhances public safety."--Jennifer Wynn, Washington Post
