The crisis of imprisonment protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
"In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, by 1900 contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to hard, sweated toil for private ga...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge historical studies in American law and society. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39693004*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
