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Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy : liberty and power in the early American republic

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Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.
Author
Kann, Mark E.
Publication
New York ; London : New York University Press, c2005.

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ix, 337 p.; 24 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-325) and index.
Contents
Justifications for punishment -- Purposes of punishment -- Targets of punishment -- Benjamin Rush : patriarch of penal reform -- Case against traditional punishments -- Penitentiary punishment -- Prison discipline and prison patriarchs -- Disenchantment -- Warehousing marginal Americans -- Concealing punishment -- Stretching patriarchal political power -- Conclusion : Liberty and power.
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JFE 05-11778
ISBN
0814747833 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005007278
  • 9780814747834
OCLC
58986238
Author
Kann, Mark E.
Title
Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.
Imprint
New York ; London : New York University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-325) and index.
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9780814747834
Research Call Number
JFE 05-11778
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