The crisis of imprisonment: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941

Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment -- Strains of servitude : legal punishment in the early republic -- Due convictions : contractual penal servitude and its discontents -- Commerce upon the throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America -- Disciplining the state, civilizing t...

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Main Author: McLennan, Rebecca M. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press 2008
In:Year: 2008
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