Tocqueville’s Moderate Penal Reform

Emily Katherine Ferkaluk is Instructor of Political Science at Cedarville University, USA.  She is translator of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France: The Complete Text and teaches courses in American politics and political theory.

• 1. An Introduction to Tocqueville’s First WorkChapter 1: Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Theory.- 2. Tocqueville’s Moderate Penal Theory.- 3. Tocqueville’s Moderate Penal Activity.- 4. Tocqueville’s Moderation and Lieber’s Idealism in Penal Reform.- 5. Tocqueville’s Moderate Penal Reform After 1832.- 6. Conclusion: Tocqueville’s Penal Reform and Today’s Penal Problems.

“Ferkaluk (Cedarville Univ.) offers an important new contribution to the ever-growing field of Tocqueville studies. … She discovers that Tocqueville’s political theory shines through the text in unexpected ways and that the book offers important lessons to contemporary liberal democracy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (E. C. Sands, Choice, Vol. 56 (2), October, 2018)