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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Autor principal: McLennan, Rebecca M. 1967- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press 2008
En:Año: 2008
Acceso en línea: Contributor biographical information
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Palabras clave:
Protest movements > United States > History
Convict labor > United States > History
Imprisonment > United States > History
Punishment > United States > History
Criminal Law > United States > History
Labor movement > United States > History
Prisons > History > United States
Imprisonment > History > United States
Punishment > History > United States
United States > Politics and government
USA > Strafvollzug > Freiheitsstrafe > Geschichte 1776-1941
USA > Protestbewegung > Strafvollzug > Arbeiterbewegung > Freiheitsstrafe > Geschichte 1776-1941
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Sumario: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
Notas:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 473-484
Descripción Física:xiii, 505 Seiten, Illustration, 24 cm
ISBN:9780521830966
9780521537834