Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy [electronic resource] : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2005.Description: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.6/0973/09033 22
LOC classification:
  • HV9466 .K36 2005eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-325) and index.

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.

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