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The crisis of imprisonment: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
Rebecca M. McLennan
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction: The Grounds of Legal Punishment (page 1)
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1 Strains of Servitude: Legal Punishment in the Early Republic (page 14)
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2 Due Convictions: Contractual Penal Servitude and Its Discontents, 1818-1865 (page 53)
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3 Commerce upon the Throne: The Business of Imprisonment in Gilded Age America (page 87)
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4 Disciplining the State, Civilizing the Market: The Campaign to Abolish Contract Prison Labor (page 137)
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5 A Model of Servitude: Prison Reform in the Early Progressive Era (page 193)
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6 Uses of the State: The Dialectics of Penal Reform in Early Progressive New York (page 239)
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7 American Bastille: Sing Sing and the Political Crisis of Imprisonment (page 280)
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8 Changing the Subject: The Metamorphosis of Prison Reform in the High Progressive Era (page 319)
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9 Laboratory of Social Justice: The New Penologists at Sing Sing, 1915-1917 (page 376)
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10 Punishment without Labor: Toward the Modern Penal State (page 417)
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Conclusion: On the Crises of Imprisonment (page 469)
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Select Bibliography (page 473)
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Index (page 485)
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521830966 (hardcover)
- 9780511389993 (ebook)
- 9780521537834 (paper)