The crisis of imprisonment [electronic resource] : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.
2008
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The crisis of imprisonment [electronic resource] : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.
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Cambridge, [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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xiii, 505 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment
Strains of servitude : legal punishment in the early republic
Due convictions : contractual penal servitude and its discontents, 1818-1865
Commerce upon the throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America
Disciplining the state, civilizing the market : the campaign to abolish contract prison labor
A model servitude : prison reform in the early Progressive Era
Uses of the state : the dialectics of penal reform in early progressive New York
American Bastille : Sing Sing and the political crisis of imprisonment
Changing the subject : the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high Progressive Era
Laboratory of social justice : the new penologists at Sing Sing, 1915-1917
Punishment without labor : towards the modern penal state
Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment.
Strains of servitude : legal punishment in the early republic
Due convictions : contractual penal servitude and its discontents, 1818-1865
Commerce upon the throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America
Disciplining the state, civilizing the market : the campaign to abolish contract prison labor
A model servitude : prison reform in the early Progressive Era
Uses of the state : the dialectics of penal reform in early progressive New York
American Bastille : Sing Sing and the political crisis of imprisonment
Changing the subject : the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high Progressive Era
Laboratory of social justice : the new penologists at Sing Sing, 1915-1917
Punishment without labor : towards the modern penal state
Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Cambridge studies in American law and society]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Cambridge historical studies in American law and society (Series)
Cambridge studies in American law and society (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
Cambridge studies in American law and society (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
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Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.
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