Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy [electronic resource] : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.
By: Kann, Mark E.
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Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2005Description: ix, 337 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Punishment -- United States -- History | Prisons -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.6/0973/09033 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 364.6/01 Dangerous offenders | 364.6/09 Qualities of mercy | 364.6/0973 Downsizing prisons | 364.6/0973/09033 Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy | 364.6/09764 Worse than death | 364.6/5 Penal populism and public opinion | 364.6/5 Punishment and democracy |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-325) and index.
Justifications for punishment -- Purposes of punishment -- Targets of punishment -- Benjamin Rush : patriarch of penal reform -- The case against traditional punishments -- Penitentiary punishment -- Prison discipline and prison patriarchs -- Disenchantment -- Warehousing marginal Americans -- Concealing punishment -- Stretching patriarchal political power -- Conclusion : liberty and power.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.