The crisis of imprisonment

McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-

The crisis of imprisonment protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / [electronic resource] : Rebecca M. McLennan. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xiii, 505 p. : ill. - Cambridge historical studies in American law and society . - Cambridge historical studies in American law and society. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.

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.


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Protest movements--History.--United States
Convict labor--History.--United States
Imprisonment--History.--United States
Punishment--History.--United States
Criminal law--History.--United States
Labor movement--History.--United States


United States--Politics and government.


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