The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.
McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-
2008
HN59 .M222 2008 (Mapit)
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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-
ISBN 9780521537834 (pbk.)
0521537835 (pbk.)
9780521830966
0521830966
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xiii, 505 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HN59 .M222 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 365/.97309034
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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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.

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