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house of correction Euph. a prison. He was sentenced to five years in the county's house of correction. The Jones House of Correction was built in the 1950s, when violent crime was much less common here. See also: house How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Robert Shoemaker has focussed upon the records from houses of correction in his study of the reformation of manners movement, arguing that reforming Justices preferred commitments to houses of correction over recognizances because the latter "were not an effective procedure for punishing or preventing vice. The Dutch were influenced by the English houses of correction, and Spierenburg has done a careful job of reconstructing the events that led Amsterdam, in the last decade of the sixteenth century, to create a house of discipline. |
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