04415nam 22007572 450 99624822330331620151005020622.01-107-17462-71-281-37045-297866113704590-511-39406-30-511-51172-80-511-39326-10-511-39195-10-511-39075-00-511-39471-3(CKB)1000000000411977(EBL)336074(OCoLC)476152135(SSID)ssj0000132506(PQKBManifestationID)11143496(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132506(PQKBWorkID)10039350(PQKB)11197783(UkCbUP)CR9780511511721(MiAaPQ)EBC336074(PPN)183065387(EXLCZ)99100000000041197720090312d2008|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe crisis of imprisonment protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941 /Rebecca M. McLennan[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2008.1 online resource (xiii, 505 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge historical studies in American law and societyTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-53783-5 0-521-83096-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.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.America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.Protest movementsUnited StatesHistoryConvict laborUnited StatesHistoryImprisonmentUnited StatesHistoryPunishmentUnited StatesHistoryCriminal lawUnited StatesHistoryLabor movementUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and governmentProtest movementsHistory.Convict laborHistory.ImprisonmentHistory.PunishmentHistory.Criminal lawHistory.Labor movementHistory.365/.97309034McLennan Rebecca M.1967-1020857UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK996248223303316The crisis of imprisonment2416381UNISA