American penology
Subtitle: a history of control
By: Thomas G. Blomberg and Karol Lucken.
Contributors: Lucken, Karol.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780202363349
Subjects: Prisons -- United States -- History; Punishment -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public punishment in Colonial America (1600-1790); title: Penal code reform in period of transition (1790-1830); title: Age of penitentiary in nineteenth-century America (1830-1870s); title: Progressivism and reformatory, parole, and probation (1880s-1920s); title: Progressivism and juvenile court (1900-1960s); title: Twentieth-century rehabilitative ideal and "correctional" system (1900-; title: 1960s); title: Prison subcultures (1950s-1960s); title: Prisoner rights in age of discontent (1960s-1970s); title: Decentralizing corrections (1960s-1970s); title: Conservatism and law-and-order punishment (1980s-1990s); title: Penal system as surrogate institution for special populations; title: Punishment in millennial age; title: Conclusion.