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Only a year after their trip to America, Gustave de Beaumont and de Tocqueville published their report on the American penal system. Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis, et de son application en France met with unexpected success. It was published in three editions (1833, 1836 and 1845) and in several translations by such eminent authors as William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor in England, Francis Lieber in America and Nikolaus Heinrich Julius, who took care of the German edition. The work received enthusiastic reviews in newspapers and magazines, which praised the seriousness and solid documentation of the empirical work (OC, 2, 358–372). The “classic work of the prison system” (OC, 2, 369) was finally awarded the Monthyon Prize by the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques. One reason for the great attention the work received (OC, V/1, 24) was that the prison debate at the end of the eighteenth century and in the first half of the nineteenth century was perceived as the heart of the liberal reform movement. This assessment was based on far-reaching social and legal debates that had a lasting impact on the discourse on the prison system.

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Reform of the Criminal Law and the American Prison System

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    2026年

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  • Skadi Siiri Krause

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Only a year after their trip to America, Gustave de Beaumont and de Tocqueville published their report on the American penal system. Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis, et de son application en France met with unexpected success. It was published in three editions (1833, 1836 and 1845) and in several translations by such eminent authors as William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor in England, Francis Lieber in America and Nikolaus Heinrich Julius, who took care of the German edition. The work received enthusiastic reviews in newspapers and magazines, which praised the seriousness and solid documentation of the empirical work (OC, 2, 358–372). The “classic work of the prison system” (OC, 2, 369) was finally awarded the Monthyon Prize by the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques. One reason for the great attention the work received (OC, V/1, 24) was that the prison debate at the end of the eighteenth century and in the first half of the nineteenth century was perceived as the heart of the liberal reform movement. This assessment was based on far-reaching social and legal debates that had a lasting impact on the discourse on the prison system.