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

• Autore: McLennan Rebecca M. <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 505 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 365/.97309034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-484) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The crisis of imprisonment
• ISBN: 1-107-17462-7; 1-281-37045-2; 9786611370459; 0-511-39406-3; 0-511-51172-8; 0-511-39326-1; 0-511-39195-1; 0-511-39075-0; 0-511-39471-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248223303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.