Download or read book The English Prison and Borstal Systems written by Lionel W. Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1952, this is an account of the prison and Borstal systems in England and Wales after the Criminal Justice Act 1948, with a historical introduction and an examination of the principles of imprisonment as a legal punishment.