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The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
- Title
- The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.
- Author
- McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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- Description
- xiii, 505 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-5601
- ISBN
- 9780521830966 (hardback)
- 0521830966 (hardback)
- 9780521537834 (pbk.)
- 0521537835 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007018519
- OCLC
- 124036291
- Author
- McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-
- Title
- The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Series
- Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-5601