The crisis of imprisonment : = prote...
McLennan, Rebecca M., (1967-.)

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  • The crisis of imprisonment : = protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
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    Title/Author: The crisis of imprisonment :/ Rebecca M. McLennan.
    Reminder of title: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
    Author: McLennan, Rebecca M.,
    Published: Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2008.,
    Description: xiii, 505 p. :ill.
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    Subject: Convict labor - History. - United States -
    Subject: United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 -
    Online resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511721Access by subscription
    ISBN: 0521537835 (pbk.)
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