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Bookmark or Share- Alexander Maconochie (penal reformer) - WikipediaAlexander Maconochie (11 February 1787 – 25 October 1860) was a Scottish naval officer, geographer and penal reformer. [2] In 1840, Maconochie became the Governor of Norfolk Island, a prison island in which convicts were treated with severe brutality and were seen as lost causes.
- Maconochie - WikipediaMaconochie was a canned British stew of sliced turnips, carrots, potatoes, onions, haricot beans, and beef in a thin broth, named after the Aberdeen-based Maconochie Company that produced it. It gained recognition as a widely-issued military ration for British soldiers during the Boer War [1] and World War I.
- The Penal Excess of an Enlightened Reformer: Alexander Maconochie’s ...Maconochie is portrayed as a benevolent reformer who invented the ‘mark system’; an innovative contribution to penal theory which sought to establish the primacy of reformation within state punishment.
- Alexander Maconochie – a forgotten penal reformer?Alexander Maconochie, like John Howard (as well as your President), came to penal reform by accident. His primary career was that of a naval officer and subsequently a geographer. Born in 1787, in 1833 he became the first Professor of Geography at University College London.
- Alexander Maconochie and the Development of Parole - JSTORwriting Maconochie's biography, became the first Chairman of the Victorian Parole Board. 16 Ameri-can penologists, however, continue to think that even if Maconochie did not initiate the system, he contributed to its development. Thus Dressler writes: But the ticket-of-leave plan lay comparatively fallow until Alexander Maconochie arrived on ...
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