crisis of imprisonment
Subtitle: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
By: Rebecca M. McLennan.
Series: Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521830966; 9780521537834
Subjects: Prisons -- United States -- History; Imprisonment -- United States -- History; Punishment -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment; title: Strains of servitude : legal punishment in the early republic; title: Due convictions : contractual penal servitude and its discontents; title: Commerce upon the throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America; title: Disciplining the state, civilizing the market : the abolition of contract prison labor; title: A model servitude : prison reform in the early Progressive Era; title: Uses of the state : dialectics of reform in early progressive New York; title: American bastille : Sing Sing and the political crisis of imprisonment; title: Changing the subject : the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high Progressive Era; title: Laboratory of social justice : the new penologists at Sing Sing; title: Punishment without labor : towards the modern penal state; title: Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment.