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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca M. McLennan is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught at Columbia University and Harvard University. She completed her graduate studies in American History at Columbia University, where her doctoral thesis on the making of the progressive penal state was awarded the Bancroft Prize for best dissertation in historical studies in 1999. Klappentext This book offers a sweeping reinterpretation of American penal history between the Revolution and World War II. Zusammenfassung America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the grounds of legal punishment; 1. Strains of servitude: legal punishment in the early republic; 2. Due convictions: contractual penal servitude and its discontents; 3. Commerce upon the throne: the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America; 4. Disciplining the state, civilizing the market: the abolition of contract prison labor; 5. A model servitude: prison reform in the early progressive era; 6. Uses of the state: dialectics of reform in early progressive New York; 7. American Bastille: Sing Sing and the political crisis of imprisonment; 8. Changing the subject: the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high progressive era; 9. Laboratory of social justice: the new penologists at Sing Sing; 10. Punishment without labor: towards the modern penal state; Conclusion: on the crises of imprisonment.
