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Author Pisciotta, Alexander W

Title Benevolent Repression : Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement
Published New York : NYU Press, 1994

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Making Christian Gentlemen: The Promise of Elmira, 1876-1899; Chapter Two Benevolent Repression: The Reality of the Elmira System, 1876-1899; Chapter Three Revisiting Elmira: The Defects of Human Engineering in Total Institutions; Chapter Four Searching for Reform: The Birth of America's Third Penal System, 1877-1899; Chapter Five The "New" Elmira: Psycho-eugenics and the Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal; Chapter Six Triumphant Defeat: The Decline of Prison Science, 1900-1920
ConclusionAppendix: Declaration of Principles Adopted and Promulgated by the Congress; Bibliography; Index
Summary The opening, in 1876, of the Elmira Reformatory marked the birth of the American adult reformatory movement and the introduction of a new approach to crime and the treatment of criminals. Hailed as a reform panacea and the humane solution to America's ongoing crisis of crime and social disorder, Elmira sparked an ideological revolution. Repression and punishment were supposedly out. Academic and vocational education, military drill, indeterminate sentencing and parole--"benevolent reform"--Were now considered instrumental to instilling in prisoners a respect for God, law, and capitalis
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Subject Prisons -- United States -- History
Corrections -- United States -- History
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Corrections.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Prisons.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814768914
0814768911