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The Role of Prison in Europe

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It is a cold late February day and the Cambridge sky is a steely blue. I have arranged to meet Tessa at the front of King’s College and spot her grass-green jacket from far off. That is how we arranged in a phone call the previous day how we would recognise each other: she would be wearing a green anorak and I would be in black.

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    These are the fourth and second editions of the books that were published in 1777 and 1789. These editions are further used in this book.

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Beken, T.V. (2016). Prologue. In: The Role of Prison in Europe. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29388-2_1

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