The crisis of imprisonment [electronic resource] : protest, po litics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebe cca M. McLennan.
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TextSeries: Cambridge historical studies in American law and society | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society | Cambridge studies in American law and society | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Cambridge, [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 505 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.
Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment -- Strains of servitud e : legal punishment in the early republic -- Due convictions : contrac tual penal servitude and its discontents, 1818-1865 -- Commerce upon th e throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America -- Discip lining the state, civilizing the market : the campaign to abolish contr act prison labor -- A model servitude : prison reform in the early Prog ressive Era -- Uses of the state : the dialectics of penal reform in ea rly progressive New York -- American Bastille : Sing Sing and the polit ical crisis of imprisonment -- Changing the subject : the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high Progressive Era -- Laboratory of social j ustice : the new penologists at Sing Sing, 1915-1917 -- Punishment with out labor : towards the modern penal state -- Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Cambrid ge studies in American law and society]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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