The discovery of the asylum
Subtitle: social order and disorder in the new republic
By: David J. Rothman with a foreword byThomas G. Blomberg
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: New lines in criminology; New lines in criminology
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780585485027
Subjects: Public institutions; History; Asylums; Prisons; Établissements publics; Histoire; Asiles; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; Popular Culture
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1971.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-367) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the 1990 edition; title: The boundaries of colonial society; title: Charity and correction in the Eighteenth Century; title: The challenge of crime; title: The invention pf the penitentiary; title: Insanity and the social order; title: The new world of asylum; title: The paradox of poverty; title: The almshouse experience; title: The well-ordered asylum; title: The legacy of reform; title: The enduring institution.