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Notorious Prisoners of the World by Stephen Wade is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Notorious Prisoners of the World about?
The first prisons were in the dungeons of empires and castles, places of neglect and sheer oblivion. Every civilization has had its dissenters and its 'deviants' - criminals as well as political offenders, and so prisons became essential to the retention of power. As the centuries passed after classical times, and prisons were needed for other categories of person, such as debtors, states across the world began to cater for a variety of prisoners, and legal systems became more closely linked to
Who reads Notorious Prisoners of the World?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Wade
- Publisher
- Wharncliffe True Crime
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781845631642
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, True Crime, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25