Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy [electronic resource] : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2005.Description: ix, 337 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 364.6/0973/09033 22
- HV9466 .K36 2005
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.