Punishment, prisons, and patriarchy : liberty and power in the early American republic / Mark E. Kann.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kann, Mark E.
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
Punishment > United States > History.
Prisons > United States > History.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:ix, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.