| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 337 pages) |
| Contents |
Justifications for punishment -- Purposes of punishment -- Targets of punishment -- Benjamin Rush : patriarch of penal reform -- The 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 |
| Summary |
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans. American patriots fought a revolution in the name of liberty. Their victory celebrations barely ended before leaders expressed fears that immigrants, African Americans, women, and the lower classes were prone to vice, disorder, and crime. This spurred a generation of penal reformers to promote successfully the most systematic institution ever devised for stripping people of liberty: the peniten |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-325) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment -- United States -- History
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Prisons -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Prisons
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Punishment
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005007278 |
| ISBN |
1429414278 |
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9781429414272 |
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9780814747834 |
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0814747833 |
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9780814749227 |
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0814749224 |
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0814748678 |
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9780814748671 |
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