Format:
xiii, 505 Seiten
,
Illustration
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780521830966
,
9780521537834
Series Statement:
Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
Content:
Introduction: The grounds of legal punishment -- Strains of servitude : legal punishment in the early republic -- Due convictions : contractual penal servitude and its discontents -- Commerce upon the throne : the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America -- Disciplining the state, civilizing the market : the abolition of contract prison labor -- A model servitude : prison reform in the early Progressive Era -- Uses of the state : dialectics of 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 -- Punishment without labor : towards the modern penal state -- Conclusion: On the crises of imprisonment
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 473-484
,
Teilw. zugl. Diss.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Strafvollzug
;
Freiheitsstrafe
;
Geschichte 1776-1941
;
USA
;
Protestbewegung
;
Strafvollzug
;
Arbeiterbewegung
;
Freiheitsstrafe
;
Geschichte 1776-1941
;
USA
;
Strafvollzug
;
Freiheitsstrafe
;
Geschichte 1776-1941
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007018519-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007018519-b.html
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