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  • Titel: Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy : Liberty and Power in the Early Republic
  • Enthält: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Part I Punishment
    1 Justifications for Punishment
    2 Purposes of Punishment
    3 Targets of Punishment
    Part II Prisons
    4 Benjamin Rush: Patriarch of Penal Reform
    5 The Case against Traditional Punishments
    6 Penitentiary Punishment
    7 Prison Discipline and Prison Patriarchs
    8 Disenchantment
    9 Warehousing Marginal Americans
    Part III Patriarchy
    10 Concealing Punishment
    11 Stretching Patriarchal Political Power
    Conclusion: Liberty and Power
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
    About the Author
  • Beteiligte: Kann, Mark E. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: New York, NY: New York University Press, [2005]
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814749227
  • ISBN: 9780814749227
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  • Schlagwörter: Prisons United States History ; Punishment United States History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
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  • Anmerkungen: In English
  • Beschreibung: Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans. American patriots fought a revolution in the name of liberty. Their victory celebrations barely ended before leaders expressed fears that immigrants, African Americans, women, and the lower classes were prone to vice, disorder, and crime. This spurred a generation of penal reformers to promote successfully the most systematic institution ever devised for stripping people of liberty: the penitentiary.Today, Americans laud liberty but few citizens contest the legitimacy of federal, state, and local government authority to incarcerate 2 million people and subject another 4.7 million probationers and parolees to scrutiny, surveillance, and supervision. How did classical liberalism aid in the development of such expansive penal practices in the wake of the War of Independence?
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