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The crisis of imprisonment [electronic resource] : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 / Rebecca M. McLennan.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
Subjects:
Protest movements > United States > History.
Convict labor > United States > History.
Imprisonment > United States > History.
Punishment > United States > History.
Criminal law > United States > History.
Labor movement > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
Convict labor.
Criminal law.
Imprisonment.
Labor movement.
Politics and government.
Protest movements.
Punishment.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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