by D. L. HOWARD
Lecturer in Sociology,
Brighton College of Education
The recent publication of Convicts and the Colonies by the Australian historian A. G. L. Shaw provided a more detailed and accurate picture of the system of transportation than has yet been available.
D. L. Howard , author of The
English Prisons, discusses the rationale behind this seemingly outmoded method of dealing with criminals and asks the question: Are the prisoners of modem Britain still. in a sense, tranaportees?
