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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1. VerfasserIn: McLennan, Rebecca M. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press 2008
In:Jahr: 2008
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Zusammenfassung: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 the market : the abolition of contract prison labor -- A model servitude : prison reform in the early Progressive Era -- Uses of the state : dialectics of 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 -- Punishment without labor : towards the modern penal state -- Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 473-484
Beschreibung:xiii, 505 Seiten Illustration 24 cm
ISBN:9780521830966
9780521537834