Humanitarian reforms moved punishment indoors rather than abolishing it

Evidence

Nor are the public areas of the city enlivened any longer by punishments and executions. Gone are the whipping post, the gibbet, the stake, the pillory, and the stocks-those artifacts of urban life in “the good old days.” The “humanitarian movements” that accompanied industrialization in both England and the United States apparently operated on the motto “out of sight, out of mind,” and through their efforts a whole spectrum of man’s inhumanities to man moved indoors, behind walls and out of sight. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 363

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Foucault’s account of punishment moving from spectacle to discipline, and parallels Gary Hogg’s claim that humanitarian reform decommissioned loud public punishment in Britain.
• SEED: Article angle: how ‘out of sight, out of mind’ humanitarianism quietly remade the moral character of public space — a civic acoustic/moral history.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 363