The crisis of imprisonment [electronic resource] : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.
Series: Cambridge historical studies in American law and societyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 505 p. : illISBN:- 9780521830966 (hardback)
- 0521830966 (hardback)
- 9780521537834 (pbk.)
- 0521537835 (pbk.)
- 365/.97309034 22
- HN59 .M222 2008eb
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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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